| Worthwhile..................13 | |
| the true choice and that it would be worthwhile to give up what at first seemed so | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| with the Luciferic worlds that it was indeed worthwhile. If communication with one world could exist, a | 21 THE FALL |
| while. You know that handling this dirt is worthwhile and necessary for freeing your treasure, so you | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| a higher price because the possible advantage seems worthwhile. You will then have accepted another one of | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| this direction. It should be something that is worthwhile. The subject discussed in this lecture, concerning the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| own worries and difficulties, you are doing something worthwhile all around, for others as well as for | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| meant to be. For there is nothing more worthwhile and purposeful that you could possibly do, as | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of love impossible. The venture does not seem worthwhile. So, the yearning for pleasurable fulfillment is squelched | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Then, and only then, will you realize how worthwhile this process is. You will then know that | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| fulfill these demands because you decide they are worthwhile or abstain from them. But there will not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| now, will then yield adventure, peaceful, harmonious excitement, worthwhile vital living. But this cannot happen unless you | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| the involuntary creative process? Nothing that is really worthwhile, meaningful and fulfilling, of lasting value, can ever | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| anything more wonderful? Could there be anything more worthwhile? This is the very aim of this path | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| Would-be....................3 | |
| For instance, the preoccupation of the mind with would-be situations belongs to this category. So do day-dreaming | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| from others. In both instances, it is a would-be, or as if life. In the as if | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| finding true self-identity and settling blindly for a would-be existence, you remain stuck in the old rut | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Wound.......................5 | |
| different kind of pain. You all know the wound cannot heal before the pus has been let | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| up courage, approaching the problem, cutting open the wound, and thus allowing the healing forces of nature | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| cut your skin, you have to wash the wound so that no dirt can prevent the healing | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| healing process from taking place. You tend the wound to help the healing forces take their course | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| only then will you heal the profoundly painful wound of believing that you live in an unreliable | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Wounded.....................5 | |
| imperfect, you feel devastated because your vanity is wounded. Not to accept yourself as you still are | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| had a similar reaction yourself and may have wounded a fellow human being, not because you wanted | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| receive love without taking the risk of getting wounded; it thinks remaining aloof is a desirable state | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| penetrate once you have unearthed that which really wounded you but which, for reasons of your own | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| injustice could be classified as pain of being wounded and hurt. There is more to it than | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Wounds......................6 | |
| so. All of you must first heal the wounds in your own souls, remove the crust with | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| of their occurrence. The saying, Time heals all wounds is valid in that a little distance brings | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| real needs now -- thereby perpetuating the old wounds of your childhood. Your present state can thus | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| other kinds, is what you feel when someone wounds you, hates you, wishes to hurt you. The | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| of the pain of injustice and heals the wounds it causes. Think of your reactions when you | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| of the Christ consciousness that heals all the wounds of division, confusion, and unnecessary conflict. You may | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Wrath.......................4 | |
| most negative in the other person justify your wrath. You will notice the personal, colored subjectivity we | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| that your feelings can snowball into fury and wrath at yourself. This fury and wrath is often | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| fury and wrath at yourself. This fury and wrath is often projected on others because it is | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| is a direct emotion. QUESTION: Is that the wrath of God in the Old Testament? ANSWER: Yes | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Wreak.......................4 | |
| destructive, primitive self that can go berserk and wreak so much havoc if left to its own | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| is evil intent in you, you could harm, wreak havoc and destruction to a much stronger degree | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| as it may be, could never by itself wreak the same havoc as the passive, receptive principle | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| satanic entities. Together these two sources of negativity wreak havoc in your life and in the lives | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Writer......................4 | |
| each individual. For one person to become a writer may be his destiny; in this way he | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| in this life. Another person, by becoming a writer, may neglect the task he has really come | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| to fulfill. You cannot say to become a writer is a sin, and yet for a particular | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| uses his willpower blindly, he will become a writer, but he will not be happy, because you | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| Writing.....................13 | |
| In other words, you do not see the writing but you see the meaning behind the writing | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| writing but you see the meaning behind the writing? ANSWER: Yes, that is right. We can see | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| Yes, that is right. We can see the writing too, as we can see the human body | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| otherwise we see the form. QUESTION: In the writing, do you see the color, the emanation of | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| list, as I have often advised, because this writing down helps you to concentrate on and condense | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| right principles. Put this confusion down concisely, in writing: I am confused because I do not know | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| will become of exactly what your confusion is. Writing contributes most constructively toward eliminating the confusion, even | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| physical psychic phenomena and trance mediumship, or automatic writing. There one can clearly define the difference. But | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| rejected, or discriminated against. Put it down in writing, every single instance. I want you to do | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| it away, put down some key words in writing. It is important to do so, because otherwise | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| you might find quite helpful. Put down in writing everything that you dislike about yourself. Have it | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of questions must be raised and answered in writing. What do I believe contributes to the absence | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| walk, handle objects, you speak; you learn reading, writing, numbers, certain basic laws of outer life, of | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| Wrong.......................1178 | |
| not please God. They are afraid of doing wrong so they do not do anything. They do | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| them lie fallow or direct them into the wrong channel. Moreover, you always cling to the false | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| differentiate between selfishness and self- centeredness. Both are wrong, but their effect is not always the same | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| one person, and they do this in the wrong way because their soul is not healthy in | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| or less in the right way, while the wrong kind of love is weak and weakening, and | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| and will thus make you react in the wrong way. As I said, real love creates a | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| which is based on pride and vanity. Such wrong currents in the soul then produce warning signals | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| and can pinpoint where they run into the wrong channels so as to cancel each other out | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| at least one price, even if for the wrong alternative. Such straightforwardness serves the soul's health, even | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the door and may continue walking on a wrong path. Going in the wrong direction often begins | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| walking on a wrong path. Going in the wrong direction often begins with a seemingly trivial choice | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| tested. Will you say, I never did anything wrong enough to justify all that is coming to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| People often approach this whole area with a wrong attitude. They believe that there cannot be such | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to give. Both of these solutions might be wrong in a specific case. What the right answer | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| that something is right because its opposite is wrong. And yet both extremes are wrong, precisely because | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| opposite is wrong. And yet both extremes are wrong, precisely because they are extremes. Here is an | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| kind of preoccupation with one's faults is obviously wrong. It not only attracts negative forces, it is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| follow what you have learnt about right and wrong, or because you believe this buys recognition and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| thing; that is to want something in the wrong way. Again, it is easy to misunderstand this | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| fallen away from God because we entered the wrong path, not the divine, why did God make | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| vibration. I say: All inner currents diverted into wrong channels create obstacles. All that lies unrecognized and | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in you must be unresolved, no matter how wrong the other person may be. After this insight | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| comes the will to straighten out whatever is wrong within you and the readiness to allow for | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| circumstances to avoid the necessity to seek the wrong within you. Contemplate what causes your inner resistance | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| true reason for it? What did I do wrong? In what respect do I have a wrong | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| wrong? In what respect do I have a wrong attitude? Think about it and surrender yourself to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| them, too, in every respect. Something must be wrong with your own thinking if you raise doubts | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| we should ask ourselves what in us is wrong. But the heaviness may come also, for instance | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| opera glasses into which you look from the wrong end so that everything becomes very small. Then | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| air, water, and fire, this meditation will be wrong. Is this correct? ANSWER: Yes, this is very | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| two very contrary and extreme conclusions, each equally wrong. One group finds it useful to seek contact | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| by saying that any contact with spirits is wrong. Human nature tends, unfortunately, to generalize everything, instead | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| be quite sure that no matter how flagrantly wrong the other person may be there must be | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| When you know all your emotions, shortcomings, and wrong attitudes, you will be able to connect all | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| weakness. One does not like to break a wrong inner reaction or attitude. One does not wish | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| God! 13. POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND In the name of the Lord, I | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| more and more at peace; things that go wrong will not affect you any more -- first | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| connected with the future. Anxiety comes from the wrong type of desire. If you fear something, you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| help, too. The main point is that the wrong inner reaction that has created this evil should | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| be quite sure that some sort of inner wrong reaction has taken place. Generally speaking, any of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| law with another's. Your comparison may be all wrong, because you cannot possibly judge where you stand | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| daydreaming. No one thinks that there is anything wrong with that. You believe that it is not | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| other spots may be altered and put into wrong channels by the lower self through certain faults | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |