| Charging....................3 | |
| optimally because then the flow is not stopped. Charging and discharging takes place in a self-perpetuating, constant | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| pure state the tightening is a kind of charging, so as to give spring to the creative | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| that follows from it. This alternating movement of charging and letting go is a creative whole which | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Charity.....................5 | |
| craving, and dependency. Let us take another quality: charity. There are many aspects to it: the charity | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| charity. There are many aspects to it: the charity of the spirit, manifesting in tolerance and understanding | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the spirit, manifesting in tolerance and understanding; the charity of giving material things; the charity of feeling | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| understanding; the charity of giving material things; the charity of feeling with and for another person, which | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| skin was more important than truth, decency, honesty, charity, love, empathy -- in short, all that God | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Chart.......................6 | |
| and have many earth signs in their astrological chart can tolerate this kind of meditation better than | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| astrology the situation is different because the astrological chart has to be figured according to the geographical | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the plan. All this is shown on the chart, and the fluids have to be prepared and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| be compared to the principle of an astrological chart that has been made for each individual separately | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| a map for you with which you can chart your way through an inner situation. Without this | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your innate destiny is important. It is the chart without which you cannot steer your ship. But | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Chase.......................3 | |
| and the human fear on recognizes. You cannot chase it away and say it isn't there. ANSWER | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| this attitude. It is a hopeless and endless chase for an illusory goal that leaves the personality | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| positive, I will be disappointed, and I may chase it away by my very belief in it | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Chasm.......................9 | |
| emotionally you don't. Often there is a wide chasm between what you know and think consciously and | 31 SHAME |
| that there is every so often a great chasm between what you consciously think and even truly | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| To find the truth about yourself -- the chasm that exists between your thoughts and your feelings | 36 PRAYER |
| principle. They create the apparently dangerous and unbridgeable chasm between the ego and the universal power. They | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| exhausted, but also more and more frustrated. The chasm between the self and others widens forever more | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| unifies that disunity. Growth always implies bridging a chasm, resolving a real or apparent contradiction. This applies | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| imaginary rift that you experience as a painful chasm. You must always bridge an illusory duality to | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| and your guilt; therefore, it only increases the chasm within your soul. The energies of fear and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| tools, however. As you listen into your inner chasm, it seems at first to be a black | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Cheap.......................7 | |
| cannot come cheaply and it would, indeed, be cheap if a mere list of faults and attempts | 38 IMAGES |
| bring happiness to others. I do not mean cheap and easily obtainable happiness, but the real thing | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| happiness to others. I do not mean a cheap and easily obtainable happiness, but the real thing | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and of excellent quality. Some is defective, a cheap imitation, and rotten. When these two incompatible types | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| your part. Whoever still wants indulgence and easy, cheap results can never, never attain this new state | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of reality, then it is sought as a cheap way of attaining a semblance of universal bliss | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| the childish desire to gain omnipotence in a cheap and easy way. Those who indulge in it | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Cheaply.....................6 | |
| have outlined here, my friends. Purification cannot come cheaply and it would, indeed, be cheap if a | 38 IMAGES |
| that this wonderful possibility cannot come to you cheaply. It is worth every effort, every conceivable sacrifice | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| sides. You cannot reach this state of consciousness cheaply. It requires your whole investment and involvement in | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| pain and fear. But this growth cannot come cheaply. It requires full investment and commitment on your | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| other desirable states and attainments, cannot come quickly, cheaply, easily. By this I mean that your total | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| supreme can never exist gratuitously, can never be cheaply snatched. They cannot be borne that way. They | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Cheat.......................39 | |
| desirable state. In other words, you want to cheat: you want to receive without giving fully. You | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| fear, and the cowardice that allows you to cheat. If you overcome a weakness and begin to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| will have to make up for trying to cheat life by hiding from eros and thus withholding | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| with anything in the eyes of God, can cheat life, and avoid self-responsibility. To begin with, such | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| without exposure. In other words, you desire to cheat life in some way. When you find this | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| The act of giving up the intention to cheat life will purify your inner vision and understanding | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is adamant against cheating when one tries to cheat life, often using the superimposed conscience and the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| feel cheated because he or she does not cheat life by withholding from it. Hence, tight, anxious | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to give up selfishness and the desire to cheat life, yourself, and others, in whatever form. You | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| in the childish nature, where the tendency to cheat life always prevails, impossible. You will not have | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| will give your best without the need to cheat, to get by, to get more than you | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| with life or with myself? Where do I cheat? Where do I impair my integrity? These areas | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| Honesty must prevail to stop one's attempts to cheat life, no matter how subtly. All character defects | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| and negative must still exist. A desire to cheat life must still exist. Conversely, to the degree | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| will to be negative and destructive -- to cheat, to defy, to pretend, not to give but | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| not recognized, when denied or excused. If you cheat yourself by trying to cheat life, you make | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| excused. If you cheat yourself by trying to cheat life, you make yourself incompatible with the laws | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| creative being. So discover the areas where you cheat. They may be hidden, indeed, but they always | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| these basic rights, the more they want to cheat and get by with giving nothing. In fact | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| exactly where you violate universal laws, where you cheat life and perhaps try to get more than | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to giving of yourself, a distorted attempt to cheat life and gain more than you wish to | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| negative attitudes, destructive feelings, subtle lies, intention to cheat, and life-defeating spiteful resistance to good feelings. All | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| your integrity, in which you want to secretly cheat life, in which you want others to carry | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| your actions or inactions, wanting to secretly, neurotically cheat life -- to the degree you impair your | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| respect and love yourself because you no longer cheat even in the subtlest of ways, to that | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you strive to amass more, you try to cheat life by manipulating circumstances so that you gain | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| wish to obtain. I do not want to cheat life by secretly wanting more than I am | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| love and fulfillment. If you unconsciously want to cheat life by wanting more than you are willing | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| abilities will wither because that person wants to cheat life. The spiritual path itself demonstrates the identical | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| negativity, including laziness, pride, selfwill, fear, wish to cheat life, and escapist tendencies. But as these tendencies | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| which it does not understand. It seeks to cheat, using shortcuts, which can never work and which | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the little thoughts about how you wish to cheat, even if you do not actually do it | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| coerce, pressure, command, demand, and manipulate -- and cheat! The open energy system which creates richness flowing | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| believe I can have, unless I push, pressure, cheat, manipulate, and force it to come to me | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| inner self. Do you sense any desire to cheat, or to avoid? Only deep, inner experience will | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| cheating, and God cannot be cheated. When you cheat, the personality may become seriously doubtful that anything | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| toward those attitudes in you that wish to cheat, that want to get the results without earning | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the rationalizations of those who are lazy and cheat, making their excuses valid by giving seeming justification | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| and having to face the consequences. Passive listeners cheat by trying to have it both ways: they | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |