| Combining...................6 | |
| some beings the split is much more uneven, combining male and female qualities in both halves. In | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| There are many more facets, possibilities, individual pseudo-solutions combining all sorts of mutually exclusive trends. All this | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| your innermost self, you will realize that the combining of these topics is a new approach -- | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| have been created in the same manner by combining these two fundamental principles. Direct creation, with its | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| keeping this path on course in this respect, combining tradition and change in their best sense, thus | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| could have been used in the spirit of combining and extending the truth of the past into | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Comfort.....................36 | |
| lifetime. The other part of the personality wants comfort, convenience, and will give up nothing. From time | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| goal, for whatever reasons -- laziness, love of comfort, vanity, or shame -- all of which make | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| courageously and humbly, not making your own little comfort so important. This is the true and best | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| who do not take themselves so seriously, whose comfort and everything pertaining to the ego is not | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| yourself that your pain, your vanity, and your comfort do not matter an iota more than that | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| To the degree that the ego and the comfort of all that goes with it loses importance | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| by complete surrender to God is that material comfort, the desires of the ego, become secondary to | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| sacrifice? What you have to sacrifice may be comfort, self-delusion, selfishness, holding on to various faults and | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| everything that it entails, disregarding the laziness, the comfort, and the way of least resistance to give | 22 SALVATION |
| truly desires to advance and to sacrifice the comfort of self-deception. But there is also another part | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| sacrifice. Not only must you give up your comfort and some of your time, but also other | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| and are satisfied with a certain amount of comfort. They do not particularly strive for higher forms | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| dissatisfaction is stronger than the temptation of the comfort of inertia and sluggishness. Then the marriage will | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| soul development. They find refuge in the steady comfort of their relationship. They may even believe that | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| from others, because enveloping the other with warmth, comfort, and tenderness is more important than what might | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| favorable from a point of view of earthly comfort, but favorable for what they need at this | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may again fall back into the misleading, shallow comfort of false religion. If you develop your own | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Although women do not give the love and comfort my soul really craves for, I may get | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| amount of sacrifice, consideration, putting one's immediate selfish comfort aside -- at least occasionally, if the love | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to admit, you will feel emotional ease and comfort. Those who have reached the point of such | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| your helper? The degree of ease and emotional comfort with which you can do this indicates your | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| it will become easier. As you gain inner comfort while freely expressing what seemed to be so | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| means going through a phase of lesser expansion, comfort, and bliss, accepting responsibility for this state, and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| models which appear comfortable -- but remember, this comfort is the greatest illusion. However, all illusions seem | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| if you are to live in peace and comfort, will not have any impact on your life | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| in the illusion that peace of mind and comfort can be attained without investing effort, realizing that | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| you unavoidably deprive yourself of the peace and comfort that are its rewards. You deprive yourself of | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| your shoulders. You will relish a peace and comfort that will give you clarity to solve your | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| so. It is a grayness which gives you comfort, but in the long run leaves you empty | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| sharing, the respect, the warmth, the ease and comfort with which you can be intimate and fused | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| from within. They must coexist in utter emotional comfort. When one is lacking, the other must also | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| do up to God, contributing love, beauty, goodwill, comfort, something constructive to the world or to another | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| do not earn enough to experience pleasure and comfort and material security, somewhere within you you are | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| saw to it that the man received every comfort and convenience but made no demands for herself | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| to this high-powered force and bear it in comfort. Ecstasy can and will become comfortable as the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| tenderness for you personally, rocked with all the comfort only He is capable of giving, you will | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Comfortable.................42 | |
| of life is not to have it as comfortable as possible, but to develop toward a higher | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| something in you resists and clings to the comfortable, undisciplined old attitude. You are then split inside | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| before. The pursuit of a path that seems comfortable, however, means that the relationship to God is | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the divine spirits. For it is always more comfortable to stay in the old way. The result | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| yourself in honesty instead of choosing the more comfortable way of pushing away what creates uneasiness, or | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to go into a direction that seemed most comfortable at the time. Therefore the development back to | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to succumb, and it is the easy and comfortable way, very often you follow these inspirations. The | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| have to give you truth, whether it is comfortable or not. Yet, bitter as the medicine may | 21 THE FALL |
| will not only see that this is a comfortable misunderstanding, but you will also clearly perceive how | 22 SALVATION |
| self that always wants to have everything so comfortable. The lower self wants to be in a | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| in which, of course, they never really feel comfortable, at ease, and loved for their own sake | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| may stay as I am, which is more comfortable. This accounts for much resistance. The motive for | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| liberating the self. This prison may even appear comfortable if you live and stagnate in it long | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you fear love and disappointment. Isn't it more comfortable to just live for yourself and have no | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| -- even though by no means flattering or comfortable -- will give you added peace of mind | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| work out this way. It would be extremely comfortable and pleasant -- many people try it but | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| often do so because it would be very comfortable, indeed. Of course it is not so and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and you can no longer cling to the comfortable, but unrealizable hope that you can have what | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| personal involvement. Can you love in such a comfortable way? If you numb your faculty of feeling | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| how you all sit back, hoping for a comfortable spirituality that leaves out your personal involvement in | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| doing the right thing. Truth is not that comfortable. It has to be fought for constantly through | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so that you can like, respect, and be comfortable with yourself. Theoretical knowledge will not help, except | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| unrestrainedly to your helper and reveal all the comfortable illusory ideals you harbor. Maybe this voice will | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| hope such defects to be dissolved by a comfortable intervention of an outside God and spiritual grace | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you. Quite the contrary. You felt warm and comfortable in it. Perhaps, at the time, you could | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| are to life, it will make you completely comfortable about receiving. You can easily determine this fact | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| away from it, you cannot be clear and comfortable, unafraid and relaxed about yourself. You cannot be | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| life and with others. Since you cannot be comfortable in your own skin, your life and living | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| old mindsets, and leave behind models which appear comfortable -- but remember, this comfort is the greatest | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| bear bliss, pleasure, ecstasy, happiness. You feel more comfortable in greyness. The power of the universal spirit | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| consult your mind and emotions. If you feel comfortable with others, without anxiety, if you expand your | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| warm and unthreatened you feel with others. How comfortable do you feel in life? That is your | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| you feel secure with others? Do you feel comfortable about your most intimate self in the presence | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| to make this transformation, to sustain and feel comfortable with positive feelings, energy and consciousness, will grow | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| in your negativity, which appears to be more comfortable than love, closeness, and pleasure. Love, closeness, and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Love, closeness, and pleasure will be the most comfortable and easy state to live in. This is | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| masks and pretenses. Consequently you begin to feel comfortable in closer intimacy. As you simultaneously cease to | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| familiar ground, in which you soon feel as comfortable as in the old. Realizing yourself means feeling | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| as in the old. Realizing yourself means feeling comfortable in a new self-expression. That is the task | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| with which you had begun to feel somewhat comfortable. This tradition had to be broken -- renewed | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| something new, when you endeavor to maintain the comfortable confines of this path as you have known | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| it in comfort. Ecstasy can and will become comfortable as the soul grows in stature. This happens | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |