| Companions..................3 | |
| circle. The early adolescent is most preoccupied with companions of the same sex intellectually, mentally, emotionally -- | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and harmony. Tension, frustration, irritation -- these constant companions that result from instincts you cannot accept in | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the resistance you encounter in yourself and your companions is based precisely on not wanting to see | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Companionship...............18 | |
| together, there is a certain amount of affection, companionship, fondness, mutual respect, and a sex-relationship that is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| true to some degree. The advantages of friendship, companionship, mutual respect, and a pleasant life together with | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the constant longing and searching for union, for companionship, and love with the other sex. It is | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| points in this direction. QUESTION: You spoke about companionship. At times one has to be alone. How | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| your emotional reactions and find that you want companionship out of fear of being alone, then the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| fear of being alone, then the need for companionship springs, at least partly, from a poor motive | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| as unhealthy. An integrated human being needs both companionship and solitude, and both for constructive reasons, rather | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| erroneous image-conclusion. The unfulfilled need for love, warmth, companionship, union, is contained in the unexpressed claim contained | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the need for solitude and the need for companionship; the need for physical and mental activity; the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| abundance. If you fear loneliness, you prevent real companionship. If you fear companionship, you prevent self-containment. So | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| loneliness, you prevent real companionship. If you fear companionship, you prevent self-containment. So it goes on and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| will change darkness and isolation into light, union, companionship, intimacy, and the knowledge that you are loved | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| success in every way, meaningful living, health, love, companionship, that is, being connected with the real processes | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| You will be unable to fully feel love, companionship, and intimacy. They are, at best, dulled -- | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| lies your capacity to have fulfillment, love and companionship; through the gateway of feeling your hate lies | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| that appear necessary. The real need for love, companionship and sharing can only begin to be fulfilled | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| simply be there with love and prayer and companionship. No rules exist. Only the intuitive connection will | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| sexual need as well as the need for companionship were polluted by opportunistic, materialistic, and exploitative ends | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Comparable..................7 | |
| known before. Because there is no other happiness comparable to the one that comes when you conquer | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| and its course of actions? How is it comparable to the Eastern concept, the one that follows | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| positive causes can go into force and produce comparable effects. This does not happen overnight. After a | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Many aspects in the entity humankind will be comparable to the conscious concepts an individual has gained | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| without. Now, when I speak of entities with comparable overall development, this must not be taken literally | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| in a given situation. That instruction is truly comparable to the music of the angels in its | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| cannot be put into words. Nothing else is comparable to the knowledge that the Lord loves you | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Comparative.................5 | |
| steadfast character. The ability to live in the comparative reality accessible to you as incarnated human beings | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| deeper is your comprehension. You may be in comparative reality in one area of your inner life | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| your self to some degree, you are in comparative harmony. You understand and perceive the laws of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| They no longer want to content themselves with comparative safety from crisis. They are willing, deep within | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| or her some opportunity to open up in comparative safety and to experience, even though vicariously, some | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| Compare.....................49 | |
| little or no spiritual enlightenment. Therefore, do not compare your faults and deviations from spiritual law with | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| imperfection. So the first step is again self-honesty. Compare your actual feelings to the true course you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| though you cannot as yet do so. First compare these two currents and learn for the time | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| who knows you really well about your faults, compare their observations with your own findings. Complement the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| Think about him, his life, his views, and compare this with the spiritual knowledge you are gaining | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| myself where I deviate from some divine law? Compare these patterns with your list of faults which | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| significance, and the consequences of your desire and compare it with the spiritual laws as far as | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| And how can you dare to judge and compare if you don't even know yourself? When you | 31 SHAME |
| I admonish you not to judge, not to compare, and not to generalize in these matters. You | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| hear or read these words: Never judge, never compare your life with that of another, or the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| makes it impossible for you to judge and compare. All this should be both food for thought | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| think about their effect on yourself and others. Compare them with spiritual law as you now know | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| reactions. You will reexperience the wrong emotions and compare them, in theory, with the right principles. And | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| are on the path, all the better. Then compare how you and how others, who are perhaps | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| be developed in another respect. Therefore you cannot compare or judge. Simply see! If you cannot see | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| if only intellectually at first. If you then compare your wrong reactions with the right concept without | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| take the other person's behavior and mannerisms and compare them with what you gave out. You will | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the human personality. In most cases you cannot compare the development of one individual with another. One | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unreasonable fear based on misconceptions. We shall then compare the right concept to your deviations. To benefit | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| of putting their needs into thoughts. They cannot compare what they have with what others have. They | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| pain of the unfulfillment of your childhood, then compare the two until, like two separate picture slides | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| realize where, why and how you have failed. Compare it with a child going to school, from | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is right or wrong if I do not compare it with something, like for instance, the Sermon | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| important to you. Analyze this feeling impression and compare it with your intellectual view. Then begin to | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| adjust your concept to a more truthful one. Compare this statement with the limited concept you have | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| they are erroneous, inadequate, destructive, disadvantageous, and unrealistic. Compare these reactions with your knowledge -- as yet | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to force yourself to feel the latter. Merely compare and understand why one way of reacting is | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| others. Diminishing the urge and the compulsion to compare will leave the genuine wish free and enable | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of people who seem to have no conscience. Compare them with people who are overloaded with conscience | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| all the attributes I discussed. You might best compare it with the consistency of skin and flesh | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| explains why it is impossible to judge and compare. To get back to your question: The technical | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| possibly see, understand, or evaluate. Therefore you cannot compare the growth processes of these organisms with your | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| not yet a mature, adult entity. If you compare the individual's period of adolescence with humankind's present | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| after it reaches full maturity, again let us compare it with the individual. An individual entity is | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| areas of your life, finding the underlying no-current, compare these areas with the aspects of your life | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| into concise words. Analyze their significance and then compare the result with those areas of your life | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| scope and resourcefulness must complete the creative process. Compare yourself with a gardener who must prepare the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| not superimpose the right concepts, but evaluate and compare, using your own thinking capacity, what is truth | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| feel about you. When you bring it out, compare it with their actual reactions to you. Then | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of them is also useful, so you can compare them properly. And then, of course, there is | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| who has only negative magnetic fields. When you compare these two modes of functioning, you will find | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| you recognize this, it is often useful to compare your refusal to love with those areas where | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| impulse rarely arises to examine these areas and compare them with your unhappy life experiences, where the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| have to see yourself as special when you compare yourself with others. In the last question and | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| interaction, both must share the responsibility. But to compare and measure your own responsibility with that of | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| to tower above others, needing admiration; needing to compare and compete and subdue others to prove itself | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| us see how these three states of reality compare when you experience them in the higher-self consciousness | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| reality. As I have often said, when you compare in this manner, you are in the illusion | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| state of hate. You can then further ask, compare and think, how you really feel when you | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |