| World's.....................15 | |
| You actually rebel against your dependency on the world's opinion. Therefore, the remedy lies in your discovery | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| important aspect. Wars, revolutions, and mismanagement of the world's riches are the obvious result. No outer measure | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| are in a small measure responsible for the world's unrest. Not in the sense, as many people | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way should, by chance, appear similar to the world's demands, you are further hindered in your movement | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| your way was similar in manifestation to the world's. The rebellion has a positive aspect too; one | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| if it fails to come, you blame the world's injustice and arbitrariness rather than your own error | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to cope with your personal difficulties and the world's difficulties. This attempt may combine a number of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| suffer without feeling discomfort oneself. Much of the world's evil is caused by this state of soul | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| they are adequately equipped to cope with the world's cruelty, which so often gives rise to despair | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| your real self, partly because you fear the world's opinion. This is the tragedy of this senseless | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| You do this partly because you fear the world's censure, and partly because of a misconception similar | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| or herself off from the reality of the world's ever-available abundance. Competitiveness -- a variation of envy | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| that do not seem immediately connected with the world's dissensions and suffering. Humanity is beginning to grow | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| accident. The reason for the distribution of the world's resources is to help people to share and | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| the sole approach to your own and your world's salvation. Focused emptiness grows, both deliberately and spontaneously | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Worn........................5 | |
| is astounding. Yet, after the first effect has worn off, the doubts in you would surface again | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| force for their pleasure and when it is worn out they hunt elsewhere. This is an abuse | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| set in motion whose effects have not yet worn off -- you will not suffer the agonies | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the impact is over and the effect has worn off, he goes right back into his rut | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| are forced to take yourself in hand, discard worn out and incorrect concepts, and leave behind your | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Worried.....................4 | |
| upset you unduly, to make you fearful and worried. Gradually, little by little, you will cease being | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| to reveal the best in oneself. You are worried that others may smile about you, find you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are not strained or anxious and not particularly worried about what others think about you in this | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| will there still be a Center? I'm really worried about it. ANSWER: There will always be a | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Worries.....................16 | |
| important, push it aside, and busy yourself with worries and petty concerns. You forget what is most | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| You forget what is most essential. Yet the worries are trifles, superficialities, viewed from the perspective of | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| spirit of gratefulness, to use the freedom from worries that money can provide to intensify his or | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| are in a crisis, while the freedom from worries would make them deviate from the spiritual path | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| develop spiritually if one does not have material worries, but when one worries about the daily bread | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| does not have material worries, but when one worries about the daily bread it is impossible to | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| God. People could be completely happy, without sickness, worries, or even death as you experience it. Yes | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| quietly, my friends, and consider calmly what your worries, your conflicts are. These may be numerous. In | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| you do something helpful and forget your own worries and difficulties, you are doing something worthwhile all | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| Apart from this, many of your problems and worries would not exist if you understood yourselves and | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| what in you has caused your problems, your worries, your discontent and unhappiness, will make you stronger | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| of what needs to be recognized, problems, illness, worries, frictions and other difficulties will therefore simply cease | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| whom you can express your real sorrows, needs, worries, longings, wishes? Very few, if any. To the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| what renders you most unhappy: your anxieties, your worries, your self-dislike, your insecurities, your discontent with life | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| isolated. Under the category of fear belong all worries, anxieties, and apprehensions. The ego's trick is to | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and allow yourself to feel your fears, your worries, your negative thoughts, and express them to your | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Worry.......................23 | |
| they had this or that fulfillment or a worry eliminated they would be happy. In other words | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| away from God. They do not have to worry about criminals. They have access to them anyway | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| to you through guidance, through inspiration. Do not worry about it now. First you have to prepare | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| condition. QUESTION: Then I would not have to worry about it? ANSWER: It is not a question | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it? ANSWER: It is not a question of worry. One should not worry about anything. One should | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not a question of worry. One should not worry about anything. One should understand the reason. The | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| beautiful one in which there is nothing to worry about. Whether you succeed in your work a | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| really lose your fear of them, for the worry and suspicion may remain within you that one | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| way it is easy. He has nothing to worry about. He is healthy, his daily bread is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| eliminate that which is unnecessary, without fear and worry. This serenity sounds like an ideal impossible to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| a healthy state, you will never have to worry about this, because if you free yourself of | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to avoid that, you do not have to worry, plan or direct your emotions, nor force your | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| fetus lived in a state of being, without worry, responsibility, or hardship. The more the entity grows | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| have nothing to fear. The only cause for worry is to be utterly unaware of these things | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| misuse of these forces creates unrest and inner worry. For the deep knowledge that the soul cannot | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| reach out for them. Hence, you will never worry about not being liked. Instead of causing a | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| his parents feel guilty; he wants them to worry; he wants them to blame themselves for messing | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| not have to pay the needless cost of worry, anxiety, guilt, and inability to manage well. You | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Needless to say that in this state no worry or anxiety can possibly exist. Nor is there | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| yourself of a burden that causes depression, anxiety, worry, hopelessness, and often physical illness and material frustration | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| that? QUESTION: Yes, thank you. QUESTION: Well, I worry a lot, mostly about problems I don't even | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| mostly about problems I don't even have to worry about. And I'd like your help to get | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| receive your worth from others, you must constantly worry about your ability to maintain the uncentered state | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Worrying....................4 | |
| productive thing. It is not a question of worrying about whether or not such fluctuation is exceptional | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| need to be in a frenzy about it, worrying whether or not you do too much or | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| is to make change appear threatening and life-annihilating. Worrying and anxiety also prevent you from attaining joyousness | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| get over this problem. ANSWER: Yes. Well, your worrying about problems that are not problems is perhaps | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Worsens.....................3 | |
| exist, a mutually negative effect is established that worsens the inner problems of both parties. But finding | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of restriction, inhibition, dependency, pleasurelessness. When that state worsens, the suffering becomes unbearable -- for nothing can | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Struggle against the perpetual change in movement only worsens the subjective experience. However, the fight and fright | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Worship.....................8 | |
| same is valid for the human inclination to worship God as a person as against experiencing Him | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| world. By temple I mean a house to worship the Lord. I said to you that the | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| childish concept. He or she is required to worship you, to follow your every whim, to give | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| something negative, imagined, frozen, petrified. And we do worship it in our way of catering to it | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that motives are important. I may want to worship God, which is probably not existent in me | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| marvel of the universe and nature. It is worship. In the next stage, when the confusion of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| being fulfilled. The new-age person will neither blindly worship tradition, nor blindly rebel against it. He or | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| on a quite conscious and intentional level. The worship of Satan occurred openly. And when this was | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Worshipped..................3 | |
| when the Jews were the only ones who worshipped the Creator as the one God, and who | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| He could manifest only among those people who worshipped this God, rather than gods which were often | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| old ways are safe and must therefore be worshipped and held on to. It is through these | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |