| Welfare.....................4 | |
| decision of all. That they asked, concerning the welfare of their whole people, a spirit and not | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the point. When he becomes dangerous to the welfare of others, he has to learn a lesson | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| pleasure is prohibited, usually for the child's own welfare; this the child cannot understand. Parents may also | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| this is not true. The importance of your welfare is infinitely greater just because you are a | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| Wellbeing...................7 | |
| worked in absolute perfection, giving humans strength and wellbeing. Strangely enough, this is less obvious to you | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| same. Home is the inner place where eternal wellbeing and eternal life are reality -- experienced as | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the further away you get from peace and wellbeing and the more confused and anxious you must | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life is embedded in you, all truth, all wellbeing, all answers to all your problems and questions | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| here are not merely physical energies which bring wellbeing, flow and pleasure. They release the voice of | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| truth, joy, peace, pleasure supreme, eternal life, and wellbeing in all respects. This must always be the | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| distortion -- sin -- and therefore in total wellbeing. There is no pain there. This true being | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Well-being..................35 | |
| when you are too concerned about your own well-being, when you hold on to yourself instead of | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the life of your fellow-creatures, but also their well-being. It is your personal responsibility. So certainly, you | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| being responsible only for my own life and well-being? I would look for that which is best | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have more love. The feeling of strength, of well-being, of fulfillment, of trust in yourself, of security | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your higher consciousness regenerates you with strength and well-being, with joyfulness and peace. This sun within yourself | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| everything you could possibly need is found: vital well-being and productivity and inner peace, which is a | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| awakening of the real self bring peace, joy, well-being, and intense pleasure. Such is the stream of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| symptoms of this principal disease will appear. Total well-being cannot be accomplished, even if you succeed in | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| self, you cannot know real safety, peace, and well-being. Nor can you use the storehouse of potential | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| on all levels of their being, to healthy well-being. If you are to attain all that, you | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| all cost, soon turns into profound enlightenment, safety, well-being. You will feel your entire inner and outer | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in question. It will fill you with peace, well-being, safety, and pleasure. Each outgoing movement will increase | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| This is the only way health, security, and well-being can be reestablished. Until now we have concentrated | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that way. All efforts to attain liberation and well-being require equal attention to the frustration of not | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| good feeling about yourself, that resilient strength and well-being, in which even difficult steps become feasible because | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| and through which all solutions, all wisdom, all well-being spring forth. How can an illusion be exposed | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| The feeling is one of immense safety and well-being, of vibrancy, peace and aliveness; of a flowing | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| anxiety, anguish, depression and a deep peace and well-being -- the former no longer has any power | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| thing that makes them alive and vibrant with well-being. We have seen superficial false conclusions and short- | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| comes from health and wants to reestablish health, well-being and happiness. Truth in life equates with feeling | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| unfold itself in creative and joyful living and well-being, is contained and held back by condensed emotions | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| energy spreads and floods over with joy and well-being. The constant flow spreads and spreads and yet | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| As I said, it is pure joy and well-being. But this is not all. Since it is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| personality. On the physical level: physical health and well-being are regulated by and dependent on the state | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| degree of deeply experienced pleasure determines energy and well-being. This is not something you have to take | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| itself an erroneous attempt to find health and well-being. It makes, in its own blind way, peace | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| relationships, new challenges mastered, new fascinations, and deeper well-being and peace. These are not empty promises, but | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| life. My own happiness will contribute to the well-being of others. I am willing to shed my | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| but that others are essentially antagonistic to its well-being. Everything the ego does is always either against | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| relationships, your experiences, your community, your sense of well-being and meaningfulness in life. You are often startled | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| others that reveal a much greater maturity, increased well-being and bliss, increased vision of new alternatives for | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| expression of your intentionality. The degree of trust, well-being, vitality, perfection, creativity, fulfillment, and all the other | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| primal state of fuller existence more conducive to well-being. So a new unity comes into being. The | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| your happiness, your human fulfillment, your health, your well-being, your healing when you are ill, your productivity | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| God, of life eternal and of fulfillment and well-being in every possible way. Because you have attained | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Well-founded................4 | |
| in sacrificing for others. And only when this well-founded self- respect is present can you truly respect | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| others, and to justify your distrust with rationally well-founded arguments. But once you have overcome the resistance | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| to shortchange life -- you will gain a well-founded self-respect. From then on you will love yourself | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| deep, reassuring sense of your own reality. Realistic, well-founded self-liking must result. When you see the truth | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Well-integrated.............3 | |
| it is supposed to make it into a well-integrated whole. For if you can solve your inner | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| free yourself of them. QUESTION: In a relatively well-integrated child, how does the idealized self-image manifest, as | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Healthy anger must occasionally be expressed in a well-integrated life. Healthy anger does not create inner disharmony | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Well-intentioned............3 | |
| upon the other, no matter how right or well-intentioned one is. To the degree you overcome your | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| with strong defenses cannot meditate, no matter how well-intentioned they may be. Their conscious mind may be | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| later, bend into some distortion, no matter how well-intentioned the person may be when starting out. On | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Well-meaning................3 | |
| the bad habits of their erring souls. Love, well-meaning and unselfish goodwill, can be expressed in prayer | 36 PRAYER |
| be found that has sometimes been distorted by well-meaning people who thought that the birth of Christ | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| plan as much as this misconception, held by well-meaning and otherwise quite enlightened individuals. These instincts will | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| Wells.......................4 | |
| make you close the door to your inner wells of faith and love -- unconsciously in most | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| building them with unending creativity and love. These wells of positive energy can be tapped to the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| tap the resources within yourself, and open the wells of your giving and loving feelings, will fulfillment | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| pessimism and wishful daydreaming. You ignore the inexhaustible wells of yourself which could enrich every minute of | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Weltschmerz.................3 | |
| say that enjoying unhappiness is the same as Weltschmerz? ANSWER: That is just one aspect, as self-pity | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Is this something similar to what is called Weltschmerz? ANSWER: Not necessarily. Usually in Weltschmerz self-pity predominates | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is called Weltschmerz? ANSWER: Not necessarily. Usually in Weltschmerz self-pity predominates, while the emotion we just discussed | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| West........................7 | |
| the differences in the teachings between East and West. ANSWER: Desirelessness is also often misunderstood, not only | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the male aspect of God more in the West and that is why East and West ought | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the West and that is why East and West ought to get together? ANSWER: Certainly. It also | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| more awake or easier to guide. In the West, technique and material progress are farther advanced because | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| myself in such a very paradoxical way. The West is the goal. The East was the perfection | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| East was the perfection you once had. The West is the perfection you will have regained. Yet | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you go east and wish to come out west, you will be in grave conflict with yourself | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Western.....................7 | |
| is the difference between the Indian and the Western concepts about the continuity of life after death | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and search in this respect as does the Western mind. Therefore, they say: We do not need | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| to receive enlightenment regarding God's male aspect; while Western philosophy, open to the experience of God's personality | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| as spiritual and religious teachings are concerned, the Western and the Eastern side should unite, because both | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| where people are so undeveloped, than in the western hemisphere? ANSWER: Because it is exactly in those | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| time, too? It seems to me that our Western culture suffers from holding onto the intellect and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| by Eastern religions, as well as by the Western mystics. These disciplines negate worldly fulfillment and consider | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |