| Westerners..................3 | |
| would you say that it is desirable for Westerners to meditate on the drop and the iceberg | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| recommended? Or is this perhaps not good for Westerners? ANSWER: I cannot generalize. It depends totally on | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| Desirelessness is also often misunderstood, not only by Westerners, but also by Easterners. Needless to say, some | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| Wheel.......................10 | |
| feelings nor circumstances, nothing at all. Imagine a wheel, unchangeable in its basic form, but constantly turning | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and see a small segment of the huge wheel. One person, at one particular time, sees one | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| coincide, but often they do not, since the wheel is turning and whoever lifts the veil may | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| be seen through the veil. If the whole wheel were visible, the seemingly contradictory parts would be | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| thing. Everything works together like cogs in a wheel, as one little wheel moves the other. But | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| like cogs in a wheel, as one little wheel moves the other. But if you focus your | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| if you are but a cog in a wheel, you do not count. You are still under | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the driver's seat, if only you took the wheel. And you can do this when you look | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| it is impossible to come out of the wheel of suffering and of painful struggle with the | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| consciousness that reflect error and therefore suffering, the wheel of death and rebirth which carries with it | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Whim........................5 | |
| overindulging and doting parents fulfill the child's every whim. They do not instill a sense of responsibility | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| doubt that you are never dependent on the whim of other people; you are never exposed to | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| required to worship you, to follow your every whim, to give up all self-direction, and to be | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| metes out punishment and reward according to his whim. And even if you do not actually believe | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| real concept, by no means a religious fanatic's whim. The terminology may possibly offend you because you | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Whip........................10 | |
| feelings to function freely or naturally. Either you whip them artificially into a more dramatic state, exaggerating | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| being. Then you will have broken the iron whip of a taskmaster whom it is impossible to | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| that way, you will no longer have to whip yourself into perfection. You will no longer need | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the urge for development because you use a whip on yourself -- while feeling that you do | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is harmful to others, because you fear the whip of your self-hate. Once you can truly perceive | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| be at this time, moral laws become a whip and a prison, so that the living spirit | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| It is so important to remember not to whip yourself with self-condemnation if you do not succeed | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| one or both will resort to using the whip of loading guilt upon each other. Loving, sharing | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| to learn is important. There should be no whip behind it if at all possible. Adults who | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| use this expression. It should never become a whip. It should merely be a reminder of who | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Whipping....................3 | |
| second conscience, as I once termed it, continues whipping and whipping you, holding up the unrealizable goal | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| as I once termed it, continues whipping and whipping you, holding up the unrealizable goal, so that | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| your idealized self demands, and never give up whipping yourself, castigating yourself, and feeling a complete failure | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Whisk.......................7 | |
| to be in a hurry believing one can whisk away deep-rooted personality problems -- problems that require | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| such emotions to be undesirable, you proceeded to whisk them also out of your own sight. You | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| your eyes to it. You think you can whisk away the falsity by not acknowledging it. Actually | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| trends exist in you. Instead of trying to whisk away such emotions, learn to accept yourself in | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| that are affected by your problems. So you whisk away these inadequacies by experiencing their opposite in | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| if your expectation is to destroy or magically whisk away a vital part of yourself and not | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| illusory hope. All of these are attempts to whisk away hopelessness, which, in turn, exists because of | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Whisked.....................3 | |
| into existence. The original insecurity which was supposedly whisked away by the establishment of the idealized self | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| your being can be avoided, skipped, bypassed or whisked away by some magic spiritual means. Self-realization, self-actualization | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| that the evil force must be destroyed or whisked away, as if anything could be made to | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| White.......................25 | |
| a few words the difference between mysticism and white and black magic? ANSWER: This is too long | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the mystic and the occult and black and white magic, but there was no time to answer | 18 FREE WILL |
| know very well the difference between black and white magic, I am sure. So I will answer | 18 FREE WILL |
| forces. The goal of the magician, even the white magician, is the exploration and the use of | 18 FREE WILL |
| and the use of certain psychic forces. True, white magic will use these forces for a good | 18 FREE WILL |
| the knowledge. The written words in black and white can shed a new light of understanding, and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| desires and put them down in black and white and say to yourself, This is what I | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to put them down concisely in black and white. If you merely think about them, you will | 38 IMAGES |
| conflicts in front of you in black and white. First, find a common denominator in all these | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| What is the spiritual point of view about white lies -- lies in order to protect a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| between obvious right and wrong, good and evil, white and black. Decisions can hurt people. Realize that | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| a basic dishonesty. There is no black or white. God's motives always mingle with wrong or sick | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the objects are black and the background is white, while on the print it is the other | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| undeveloped being feels in terms of black and white. It knows no in-between. Either there is happiness | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| inner argument: Since there is only black and white, and white is denied me, let me enjoy | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Since there is only black and white, and white is denied me, let me enjoy the all-black | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| that never permits viewing anything as black or white. True self-responsibility is the only safeguard and can | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the positive. What is black in one, is white in the other, and vice versa. Freeing yourself | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| becomes black due to partly black trends, or white for that matter, then moralizing occurs. When issues | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| has nothing to do with either black or white. Save your other questions for next time. I | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| that is bad, everything is either black or white, right or wrong. (2) There are but two | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| this versus that, right versus wrong, black versus white, good versus bad. As you know, this is | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| one side as black and the other as white, the dimensions of these problems include many other | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| about yourself. Have it down in black and white. Look at those traits when they are written | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| good or bad, right or wrong, black or white. This way of perceiving life is at best | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Whitewash...................5 | |
| A problem in the other automatically seems to whitewash this person, although in reality his or her | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| assume the sole responsibility in a conflict and whitewash the other person. Whenever there is negative interaction | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| pretense, which may seem desirable in order to whitewash yourself of guilt, you will become anxious, afraid | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| You will be less inclined to hide and whitewash and be a-tremble of your own evil or | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| of using this knowledge in order to justify, whitewash and thus perpetuate the distorted version of it | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Whitewashing................7 | |
| of proportion, not exaggerating and not denying, not whitewashing the self, nor dramatizing oneself into an all-bad | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| than placing mutual guilt on each other and whitewashing themselves? The answers to these questions will determine | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| them must be overcome; hiding and camouflaging or whitewashing must have stopped; exaggerated self-blame must be relinquished | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| to immediately go to the opposite extreme of whitewashing your actual failings and faults, those areas which | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| You confuse self-acceptance and self-forgiveness with condoning and whitewashing the negativities of the lower self; and you | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| can face your lower self unstintingly -- without whitewashing, without explaining it away or justifying it, without | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| will of loving yourself without indulging yourself, without whitewashing your lower self, seeing it straight, and loving | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Wholehearted................18 | |
| into the self that is real, complete and wholehearted. When you overcome a resistance you open yourself | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the chains that hold you, but first your wholehearted wish must grow bigger than all else. Then | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| if you have decided with a big and wholehearted Yes, you will need your willpower, my dear | 21 THE FALL |
| strongly enough that the desire has to be wholehearted, not just asking God once perfunctorily. You must | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thinking. Some of you have really made this wholehearted decision. Some of you have not. But for | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| have made some half-hearted compromises. What is a wholehearted decision for God? It always involves giving up | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| world and truly surrender their lives. In the wholehearted declaration that they have made for God, His | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| only if you have made a full and wholehearted decision for the unselfish act. Decide for it | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| decide for it. But your efforts must be wholehearted and transcendent. If the difficulties in your life | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| suffering and really experience it. For only a wholehearted entering into the life experience with all its | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| does not offer gratification gratuitously. Only your own wholehearted determination can induce you to undertake the necessary | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to go wrong. Those who persevere with a wholehearted desire to look at themselves in truth will | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| the self and the creative powers is the wholehearted wanting of happiness, that is not always as | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| work that way, my friends. You fear a wholehearted commitment, because you falsely believe that it demands | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| creativity and constructiveness. The ego must lend its wholehearted support, its one-pointed effort, its most constructive attitude | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| pointedness of attention; giving the self in a wholehearted way to whatever the commitment may be. If | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| chain-reactions. As I said, this requires dedicated, committed, wholehearted work, the utter will to be truthful with | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| sincere spirit, then whatever you do is a wholehearted investment of your best faculties. But when this | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |