| Bursts......................3 | |
| of the accumulating water will become until it bursts the dam, overflows, and destroys not only the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| They come to an end when the pressure bursts. This is a painful crisis, and people usually | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| self-perpetuation stronger and stronger, until the inflamed boil bursts. Then we have an obvious crisis. Crisis can | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| Busily......................12 | |
| struggles against hearing the truth, and so you busily do not hear that which could be useful | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| to some of your own mistakes, while so busily fighting those of others. I can assure you | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| friends. The fear and shame you are so busily hiding have no reality, and yet spoil the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| a rather superficial subconscious level, that you keep busily closing your eyes, afraid that if you saw | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| aware of any pain, past or present. They busily push it out of sight. Their problems do | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| This is even more difficult when a person busily denies those aspects in life that leave something | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| your pitfalls, with those things you have so busily ignored. Coming into your own sometimes appears, to | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| pretended role contains the same aspects you so busily try to conceal. If you hide and your | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| make them different by pretending, no matter how busily you try to make a charade out of | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| makes your life miserable and hopeless. You then busily deny your sense of hopelessness and futility, and | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| accurate description of your irrational demands that you busily try to justify. You have your terms for | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| do not push it away and assuage it busily with substitute problems, pains and fears. Have the | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Business....................22 | |
| relaxed and serene way and go about your business. The truth will be shown to you, and | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| great careers for instance in the theater or business. They are filled with their own ego and | 18 FREE WILL |
| of responsibility in their lives. Their family and business contacts know that they are thoroughly responsible. Yet | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| life has to be taken as an imperfect business. The ability to derive happiness from it even | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as a whole. Think, for example, of a business firm. Different officers fulfill certain tasks, each taking | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| then can you get down to the serious business of self and of living. When I say | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| self and of living. When I say serious business, I mean this in the positive sense of | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| away completely. It is sort of an either/or business. ANSWER: That is exactly what I meant in | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the ego is in predominant control of the business of living and the life functions, it dries | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| one does not give oneself honestly to the business of living but makes appearance and pretense the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| movements are made available to participate in the business of living, the less adequately can the ego | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| as about world events. Whether you create a business, a situation between yourself and another person, your | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| let involuntary processes do their part in the business of living, requires strength. Perception of the greatest | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of relationship: mates, parents and children, friendships, or business contacts. The tendency to make yourself emotionally dependent | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| family, your partners, your associates, your friends, your business acquaintances. Look at any life situation where you | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the simple analogy of someone who runs a business. When the business is still very small, the | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| of someone who runs a business. When the business is still very small, the organization is adapted | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| is appropriate and therefore harmonious. But when the business expands, the organization created for a small establishment | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| very much now. It seems almost miraculous. The business venture I've started looks as if it's going | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| society, a civilization, a group of individuals, a business, or whatever. In that sense people are not | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the principles you are learning. In running your business, in matters of administration, you learn the practical | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| place. So, my beloved friends, make it your business now to deepen your desire for personal contact | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Busy........................24 | |
| what is most important, push it aside, and busy yourself with worries and petty concerns. You forget | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| do not see them because you are too busy with your desires. The now is lost for | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the most part. In the meantime, Christ was busy preparing and working in the spirit world of | 22 SALVATION |
| you will not be discouraged when you are busy on this first half of the work that | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| power, you will receive it. No matter how busy you are in your life, you will have | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your subconscious struggle against this path is always busy finding believable rationalizations. The more believable they are | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the human being. All of you who are busy with the image-finding know that you must not | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| when you cannot help but feel, you are busy hiding such feelings from yourself and others. How | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| with people. Instead you isolate yourself with your busy defense against an unreal danger. Actual dangers in | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to this. You merely feel rejected and are busy with this insult. Just as you may be | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| intelligence to create what is needed, it is busy, distrusting, and holding itself together in a tight | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| truth in you. Watch your evasions. Notice how busy you make yourself with other issues that have | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| pleasurable experience of pulsation. You are usually too busy following your habit-bound, conditioned reflexes, in which you | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| many of your feelings. You are using the busy mind, the overemphasized reasoning faculty, to fit your | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| mind. This exercise will help you calm the busy, agitated mind. Therefore the center at the solar | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| may sound, for the tumultuous static of the busy mind keeps blocking this possibility. Your mind requires | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| it is now. The mental activity becomes so busy that it cannot attune to the higher voices | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| Usually you are dead to it because your busy outer mind is so accustomed to its own | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| into yourself, become calm and receptive, quiet the busy, loud mind. Start with the premise that there | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| not know this now because you are so busy with your outer mind. But there is something | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| itself to make the outer mind a very busy place, so that when that busyness ceases temporarily | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| you -- all of humanity -- are extremely busy blocking out the words you speak. You produce | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| create and change conditions. Instead, you are mostly busy demanding from others that they present you with | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| This is why the mind makes itself so busy and noisy -- in order to blot out | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Busyness....................4 | |
| a very busy place, so that when that busyness ceases temporarily, the resulting quiet is confused with | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| you choose to make the connections. In your busyness not to hear and understand your words, you | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| and occasionally even outer privacy despite all the busyness surrounding them. Those who keep predominantly to themselves | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| clarification. 1) You experience the noise and the busyness of the mind. 2) As you succeed in | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Buts........................6 | |
| provisions; there are always so many ifs and buts. The lack of love, which comes from illusion | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| is allowed to take effect. The ifs and buts of the dualistic state cease to exist. The | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| a principle of opposition. You invent ifs and buts that really do not exist. This is why | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| solutions to apparently unsolvable problems. All ifs and buts in daily practical living are loosened up -- | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the rightfulness of your bliss, no ifs and buts because your bliss interferes with the world around | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the many pros and cons, the ifs and buts. This is always so when self-alienation exists and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Buy.........................9 | |
| to make some material sacrifice with which to buy their way out. They are much less likely | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| a price has to be paid. When you buy a house the price will be higher than | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the price will be higher than when you buy a shack. You accept that as natural; it | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| physical nourishment. You have to earn your bread, buy it, prepare it, eat it. This is true | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the price is well worth it! When you buy a house and you want a beautiful mansion | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| it? ANSWER: In general, an ascetic tries to buy himself out of what he fears. He forfeits | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| a substitute must be found. A compulsion to buy things, when analyzed as to its symbolic meaning | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| are an innocent victim. But what unhappiness you buy with this illusion! And once you overcome your | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| specific job, wanting friends, wanting people who will buy what you have to sell, who will receive | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |