| Wasted......................15 | |
| of spiritually unproductive currents, it gets depleted and wasted, because it cannot be renewed, at least not | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| a glimmer of light. So many thoughts are wasted in unproductive and even harmful brooding. If that | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| current. This life may still not be entirely wasted from the spiritual point of view. QUESTION: What | 18 FREE WILL |
| solve your outer problems. Because you have often wasted many lives, and because wrong habits of thinking | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| basic fear of life. It will release heretofore wasted forces for constructive purposes and it will bring | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| that so much time, strength, and effort is wasted. If your time, strength, and effort are not | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| a spiritual point of view, that has been wasted in sloth? ANSWER: The life has to be | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| on a larger scale. If a life is wasted in sloth, time after time, finally the circumstances | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| that an unnecessary amount of energy is being wasted. This creates a kind of restlessness, a holding | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| is necessary to make this specific choice. The wasted energy produces failure and disappointment when you give | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the two opposites. The helplessness and hopelessness, the wasted energy of the dualistic struggle, rob you of | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the good functioning of your body negatively. All wasted energy has that effect. This is the background | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Your anger and complaints against the world are wasted, for all that energy could do so much | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| to experience it. All your effort will be wasted if you do not allow the involuntary functions | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| moment that every such feeling consumes energy. This wasted energy cannot work for you, but must work | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Wasteful....................10 | |
| obstacles within your soul. Such thoughts are entirely wasteful, if they are not made into foreground thoughts | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| occupations that you elect to, undisturbed by the wasteful, fluctuating thought material that has no importance, and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| But leaving earth life, as such, is never wasteful, regardless of how young a person is who | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| individual's unconscious. It is just as destructive and wasteful. Humanity is beginning to leave the adolescent stage | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| harmony. If what is created is destructive, painful, wasteful, or unhappy, these two principles must also be | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| eliminate a lot of fear and hopelessness and wasteful effort. You will become more patient with the | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| that one can admit to a downright senseless, wasteful attitude that does nothing but bring undesirable results | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| impression than even to consider what a tragic, wasteful sacrifice you make to achieve an entirely imaginary | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| that to continue in the established direction is wasteful, the suffering pointless, and the fragmented personality better | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Otherwise you perpetually deceive yourself, which is very wasteful because the fear is unjustified. How can you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Wastes......................4 | |
| you will lose the little you have. It wastes away. The same applies to all other divine | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| it to areas which cannot be controlled directly wastes energy and debilitates you. Can you imagine yourself | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| realization of his potentials; he literally sacrifices and wastes his life out of sheer hatred and vengefulness | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| be further from the truth. Disorder consumes energies, wastes them, dissipates them. Since order is a divine | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Wasting.....................4 | |
| directly control the result itself, you must be wasting your energy without being able to change a | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| discontent with life, your frustrations, your sense of wasting yourself and life, your hurt and your pain | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| abdication of your universal destiny. It denies pleasure, wasting the most valuable spiritual power you possess. Once | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| that a firm inner No exists. Instead of wasting energy in inner tension and frenzy to overcome | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Watchful....................10 | |
| come to the surface at different times. Be watchful and adjust your prayer accordingly, to keep it | 36 PRAYER |
| phases of your development, you need to be watchful and recognize how the daily events in your | 36 PRAYER |
| exempt from this fate if you are not watchful, if you do not look out for this | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| certain insights will lead to it, so be watchful. Detect where you have an unforgiving attitude that | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| and its cultivation is impossible if a continuously watchful eye tries to pull out what is supposed | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and you will truly liberate yourselves. Be particularly watchful when feelings seem problematic because there is too | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| is willfully interrupted and prohibited by an overly watchful, denying attitude of the outer ego. The average | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| that if they are not guarded and constantly watchful with their will and mind, something dangerous might | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| like annihilation because then something other than the watchful ego cooperates in the process of living. Without | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| are feared because they demand giving up the watchful, stilted, premeditated attitudes that make all spontaneity impossible | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Watching....................8 | |
| -- though divine love is always close by, watching that everything goes well -- so that you | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| are there, even if only in the background, watching that nothing befalls their protege that is not | 22 SALVATION |
| personality and your divine personality. The latter is watching and observing your outer personality. It often differs | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| befall you. You will also get accustomed to watching your background thoughts during the day, during certain | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| ones, be in God! 69. THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; FULFILLMENT OR | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| is. If you only commit yourself with reservations, watching that you remain safe, bargaining and holding back | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| in guardedness and defensiveness and who are constantly watching themselves so that these forces cannot manifest, numb | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| part of you which is doing all this watching is certainly more in charge, has more power | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Water.......................41 | |
| the iceberg or on the iceberg and the water, which in Indian teachings is very much recommended | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| of meditation better than people who have more water or fire signs. Where there is too much | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| signs. Where there is too much of air, water, and fire, this meditation will be wrong. Is | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| threw a stone into a pond of quiet water. A ring appears around it, then come more | 21 THE FALL |
| you are in, you will see that the water is not at all as cold as you | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| areas in your life, thus going into the water by stages, or whether you jump in and | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| example: A child has taken a bath; the water was boiling hot and therefore has injured the | 38 IMAGES |
| of images. Considered superficially it would seem that water, being formless and fluid, would be weaker than | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has more power than the steady stream of water. It can move rocks and force for itself | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| composed of the words that mean fire and water. Can you tie this together? ANSWER: Yes. Primitive | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| for, strength that makes life a meaningful adventure. Water represents the emotions: the flow, the state of | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| activity -- fire -- and healthy passivity -- water -- are processes of purification. Both fire and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| -- are processes of purification. Both fire and water can be cleansing processes, and both are needed | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the power of light, the clarity of crystal-clear water, and therefore penetrate all hindrances. Physical matter is | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| is possible to dam up a river. The water will flow to the dam and will then | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| and will then be stopped. But the more water accumulates behind the dam, the greater the energy | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| dam, the greater the energy of the accumulating water will become until it bursts the dam, overflows | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| to the surface to be eliminated. The ever-regenerating water in its purity and freshness will finally sweep | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| will build up behind the barricade as the water mounts. Recognize the signs of resistance, my friends | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| is noticeable by its obvious response to light, water, darkness or dryness. Therefore its movement is also | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a vessel. If it is filled with muddy water and you pour clear water into it, the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| filled with muddy water and you pour clear water into it, the clear water becomes muddy too | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| you pour clear water into it, the clear water becomes muddy too. So the muddy water must | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| clear water becomes muddy too. So the muddy water must be emptied first. When I say it | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| You must understand that particular misconceptions make the water muddy, what these misconceptions are, and in what | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| that of a swimmer. You float on the water. The water carries you. Yet you move, you | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| a swimmer. You float on the water. The water carries you. Yet you move, you are not | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| passive you could not be sustained by the water for long. But if you are too active | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| pleasure in swimming, nor is it safe. The water will control you, rather than support you. You | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| way -- confident in the power of the water to carry you, and confident in your own | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| very secure and pleasurable relationship exists between the water and the body. There is a wonderful balance | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| between the human body and the body of water. In spite of the justified trust that the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| In spite of the justified trust that the water carries the body, the person does not deny | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| principle holds true about everything else -- food, water, air. It also applies to the metabolism of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| he feels himself near it, almost touching the water of life, as he put it, stretching out | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| this analogy: if an object is thrown into water, waves form in circles spreading wider and wider | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| only seem to end where the body of water ends. But if the body of water were | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| of water ends. But if the body of water were as endless as the universe, these waves | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| another way, is the movement that ripples the water and prevents the peace that flows from the | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| vantage point on the shore, where there was water before there is none now. But you know | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| is none now. But you know that the water does not disintegrate into nothingness. It continues to | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |