| Contemplate.................29 | |
| decisions. Therefore you, who receive these words, should contemplate them well. Understand that avoiding decisions will cause | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| remain unaware of something that you should fulfill. Contemplate from this viewpoint what you should still find | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the necessity to seek the wrong within you. Contemplate what causes your inner resistance, and you can | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| an answer by asking whether the action you contemplate is right or wrong. Since none of you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| that the selfish act would be more desirable, contemplate the following: An isolated event, with all its | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| be misunderstood on that subject. No one should contemplate this path and the development taking place on | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of the soul in which you think, meditate, contemplate, and raise your thoughts to higher things. That | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and those who are hesitant, those who may contemplate to begin a new way of inner life | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| overcoming of resistance. This fact is important to contemplate, because it is the proof that there is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| nothing destructive or wrong about it. You must contemplate its effects on yourself and others from every | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| You cannot gain awareness of either unless you contemplate the cause and effect and cultivate it with | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the possibility that you might be mistaken and contemplate other alternatives -- a new world will open | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| than you are as yet willing even to contemplate. On the dualistic plane you must have everything | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| Therefore, I invite every one of you to contemplate what you truly conceive of as possibilities for | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| mechanically and unthinkingly. It is therefore necessary to contemplate deeply the real meaning of this word. When | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| possible. This is not a faraway state, to contemplate in a hereafter. It is possible any time | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| fulfillment you take this sentence very seriously and contemplate its meaning, where there is darkness light will | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| that does so. You can now begin to contemplate how you can deliberately will creative construction; you | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| words of truth, but you do not truly contemplate these words and bring them directly to bear | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the practice. One day the channel will open. Contemplate the possibility that there are faculties within you | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| while you still choose to stay with it, contemplate that one day you will want to give | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| your life, and therefore of any path you contemplate entering, to bypass feeling your anxiety and your | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| must forfeit my inner self because I cannot contemplate such a lonely life. In reality, when you | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you have not known before. But unless you contemplate this new kind of reality from a truly | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| and realism. The first stage would be to contemplate a new way of functioning, as opposed to | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| not hear your own words. You can now contemplate and enter into a new phase on your | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| word, you can listen to your words and contemplate their meaning and be aware of their consequences | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| your outer personality. But you may begin to contemplate this aspect in you and pray for direct | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| a very important new thought for you to contemplate. Just imagine: two people--or groups of people--are at | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Contemplated................5 | |
| in themselves. It could only be discussed and contemplated in very general terms. The last few months | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| unfold and give always exists, once it is contemplated, once it is taken into consideration. So much | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| In another type of meditation spiritual laws are contemplated and thought through. There is meditation in which | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| crossroads. This is important, because if change is contemplated before the unpleasant, unpalatable truth is fully seen | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| forever ready for another change you had not contemplated. What is right now may not be right | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Contemplating...............5 | |
| truly have self-responsibility. It seems to me, in contemplating the Abyss of Illusion and what you have | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and weeks of hard climbing and endurance. By contemplating this very distant peak you will get tired | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| state of fearlessness, because you are, within yourself, contemplating your own cause and effect. I have discussed | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the search for the root of your obstructions. Contemplating the fulfillment or the lack of it in | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| constricted way, but in a relaxed, confident way, contemplating that all possibilities exist as potential realities, realizable | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| Contemplation...............5 | |
| and Christ, instead of shying away from such contemplation. And you will have to admit, regardless of | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the same situation on a larger scale. This contemplation should help in a double way. One: it | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| devoted to the inner life, to reflection and contemplation, to self-observation. Thus, and thus only, will you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The original symbolic meaning was that of purification, contemplation, a time of looking within the self and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| soul and spirit of humanity as a whole. Contemplation of this will not only help you to | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Contempt....................17 | |
| accepted and loved. All these attitudes cause self- contempt and feelings of inferiority. You always despise yourself | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| act of giving as a weakness that deserves contempt. The betrayal is subtle, but it is at | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| believe so -- you will develop resentment and contempt toward that person. What you see may be | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| so when you talk yourself into resentment and contempt for a person because you believe that this | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| to negative emotions such as hate, resentment, and contempt. If you look deeply enough, you will find | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of negative emotions, be they resentment, hate, or contempt. As far as valid desires are concerned, one | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in themselves a reaction of aloof criticism and contempt for all people who assert themselves, even for | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to be projected onto others. Such emotions of contempt and resentment in turn contradict the standards of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the person into fits of depression and self- contempt which, again, have to be projected onto others | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| consciousness, that there is no reason to feel contempt for one's healthy needs. You will see that | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| -- is largely a product of your self- contempt due to the inability to relinquish. The ability | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and evil as much in order to discourage contempt and arrogance. Until only very recently insane people | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| glorifying your parent may be equated with disrespect, contempt, resentment, or hate -- in your unconscious mind | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| acceptance, while a defense against exposure brings forth contempt, dislike, rejection, and fear, and is bound to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you want to give. If this happens without contempt, resentment of the other or of yourself, without | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| are -- whether it be cruelty, spite, arrogance, contempt, selfishness, indifference, greed, cheating, or something else -- | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| conducting me. This negativity is excessive control and contempt. Going from that lower voice, which has been | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| Contend.....................4 | |
| a spiritual form -- or image. You might contend that people can also have positive, healthy images | 38 IMAGES |
| unfair and unjust force that one has to contend with. I know, my friends, that you do | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| problems, difficulties, fears, and tensions you have to contend with. Whether this manifests directly as fear of | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| by anyone who faces reality. Some religious philosophies contend that evil stems from one principal source, a | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Content.....................47 | |
| manifest form is a camouflage of its real content. For instance, someone may have an inferiority complex | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| and analyzing your emotions as to their real content, you will find that they amount to just | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| conscious foreground thought. First learn to evaluate the content of the vague background thoughts, and if you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of training one's awareness to perceive the inner content of something, and not to focus on the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the extent that they can use it. Be content, all of you who participate in this circle | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| love. It may look similar, but the inner content is very different. When you try to appease | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| ascribed entirely to outer provocations, and you remain content to believe that you are otherwise all right | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| has been gratified. Outwardly you may be quite content, but the inner restlessness is a sign of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In the first place, outwardly you may be content with the result, but you overlook the inevitable | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| as a means to seek self-importance. Now be content with your intuitive faculties. QUESTION: I wanted to | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| really miss what you miss? Do not glibly content yourself with a vague, general acknowledgement. The full | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| facets of their idealized self-image, for example, and content themselves with that, not wanting to see the | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| or angry or hurt or fatigued, you are content to call a host of feelings, impressions and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| spirit being of your innermost core is completely content. Thus a neurosis, an unhappiness, is in a | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| one. Constriction and stagnation connote that you are content with a very limited state. Therefore, dynamic growth | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| an altogether different life than one who is content within narrow confines. I also discussed how negativity | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of this grayness. They no longer want to content themselves with comparative safety from crisis. They are | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| so much is lacking in their lives. They content themselves with the pseudo-security of separateness and aloneness | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| opposed to eternally wanting and empty; joyful and content, as opposed to anxious and depressed; or whatever | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| In the meantime, you must constantly examine the content of your own unconscious, or partly conscious, beliefs | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| you are not prepared to do this and content yourself with theorizing sophistry, living by proxy in | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| follow the wandering thought through and examine the content and climate behind it, you will see how | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| divine process are truly in movement, the inner content must express itself in outer form. In short | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| that outer form is more important than inner content, and may even negate that an inner reality | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| may even negate that an inner reality or content exists at all. Instead, it asserts that only | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| without it being a direct expression of inner content. You must therefore be careful in your evaluations | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| When the outer form exists without the inner content, it is a temporary cover that must break | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| outer form exists unconnected with an organic inner content, it must disintegrate. If it exists on faulty | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| an organic expression of the inner movement and content. Only when the outer form has crashed and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| down before they can be rebuilt with inner content. There is an innate system of divine justice | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| be rich as an outer expression of inner content. Then you will not want to be rich | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| How can you give up the demand and content yourself with the bleak emptiness that you fear | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| of a series of psychic events of consciousness content. In other words, these energy movements are not | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| and psychic nuclear end point, complete with consciousness content, purpose, plan and execution. The total walk consists | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| non-being. Each of these nuclear points has a content and a meaning. It is not separate from | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| thought may appear as totally divorced from feeling content. This is not so. As a matter of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be divorced from feeling -- that is, energy content. The underlying feeling might be fear, apprehension, anxiety | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this era intellectual knowledge, must have a feeling content. It stirs up certain chain reactions. And even | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| whatever knowledge you harbor has a definite feeling content. As I said -- and I purposely repeat | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| But such beings can also perceive the consciousness content within this potent energy, the consciousness contained within | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that it must become a reactor. Its consciousness content is still too limited to be more than | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| these negative energy fields by changing the consciousness content in them. The first vital step here would | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that which immediately creates. The thought is the content, the word is its inception, its expression, its | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| We in our world can no longer be content with the purification of the conscious level. More | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| the narrow circumference that some of you feel content with, or believe yourself safe in, though you | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| good. It is heaven because you feel deeply content; your life makes sense; everything is tinged with | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| have common features. Yet they differ enormously in content, in attitude, and in their underlying thoughts and | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |