| Actualize...................11 | |
| childish desire for omnipotence which bans frustration cannot actualize the human being's divine powers where true omnipotence | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| therefore miss out on integration. They may indeed actualize some of the universal powers that come into | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| and faith are lacking that the divine can actualize itself through you, it is because you have | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| do not believe in their own capacities to actualize the infinite powers of the Universal Spirit. They | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| that you unify yourself so that you can actualize your potent creative power and use it consciously | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| yourself and your life exists within. You can actualize this knowledge if you learn to focus, to | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| you must begin to manifest that when you actualize your divine self. If you can make room | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| a goal of aspiration. You need to consciously actualize it by constantly checking up on the imbalances | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| difference but are attracted by it, you fully actualize yourself and dissolve blocks of untruth. Thus you | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| and more of your innermost being and to actualize it. The path is a spiral movement. You | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| your vision as a possibility you can indeed actualize one day. The fusion on all levels of | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Actualized..................6 | |
| its actual development, and therefore it can become actualized, are cause and effect closer together. Moreover, when | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the unfree, negative, closed areas are neglected. The actualized universal powers will not, by themselves, enforce an | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| your divine self is being continuously expressed and actualized. I will try to give you a concept | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| the act of self-surrender to the all is actualized, where it manifests and where it permeates all | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| with all of yourself and become enlivened, activated, actualized by the God within. Be in peace. 225 | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| fear you are not enough and have not actualized your inner God. This does not mean that | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Actualizing.................4 | |
| is already deeply anchored in the process of actualizing the divine life into his or her ego | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| An inevitable manifestation of the continuous process of actualizing your deep self is the incredible creativity that | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Another outer manifestation of the continual process of actualizing divine life is the proper balance of everything | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| open the heart. The fully autonomous, self-responsible, self- actualizing man and woman have nothing to fear, to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Ad..........................3 | |
| self-perpetuating momentum of the energy current will increase ad infinitum the expressions and attitudes implicit in the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of the energy current will compound, though not ad infinitum. For example, you know that misconceptions create | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| universe were created differently and negative self-perpetuation continued ad infinitum. It could mean eternal hell. The negative | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| Adam........................10 | |
| symbolic explanation of this in the story of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Actually this happened in | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| pain of self-development. QUESTION: Bearing in mind that Adam and Eve in Genesis stem from the masculine | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will have very harmful effects. The incident of Adam and Eve is not to be taken as | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| function openly and healthily. By the same token, Adam was as much at fault by being too | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is a gross misunderstanding, and also illogical. For Adam and Eve symbolize original human entities, the basic | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is damaging for womanhood. The symbolic incident with Adam and Eve shows that active and passive currents | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: Yes, it does, if I think of Adam as the symbol of man and of Eve | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| active and passive elements as such. ANSWER: No. Adam and Eve represent much more than merely the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| various myths in the Bible -- such as Adam and Eve, Eden, Heaven and Hell. He was | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| by the deep symbolism of the story of Adam and Eve. The nakedness of reality is paradise | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| Adamant.....................3 | |
| discerning about any kind of self-deception. It is adamant against cheating when one tries to cheat life | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| emptiness, and they struggle against any frustration. The adamant demand for instant gratification says, I want to | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| equals neither your negative aspects, nor your the adamant self-annihilation, nor the pretense that covers everything up | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Adapt.......................9 | |
| their feelings, but since the unhealthy feelings cannot adapt themselves to the healthy, conscious thinking while they | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of course; many still have to learn to adapt their external actions to God's laws. They will | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| person should react. In such freedom, you can adapt flexibly to the particular ways of the other | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the parts, however, it must be flexible, must adapt to ever-changing circumstances and conditions. With this attitude | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| two rigidities exists in you? How can you adapt yourself to the ever-changing flux of life? How | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| this way live in reality, and reality will adapt itself eventually and mold itself in an entirely | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| to give up certain attitudes. So you must adapt yourself to new ways of responding to the | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| an exact copy of a trait but rather adapt it to your unique individuality. Somewhere along your | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| mind must make constant changes in order to adapt itself to the greater scope of the inner | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Adaptability................3 | |
| reason, love, understanding, insight, strength, resourcefulness, resiliency, flexibility, adaptability, self-assertion, creativity -- that your real self is | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| autonomy or of rebellion and hostile opposition. Flexible adaptability can be the manifestation of a healthy psyche | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| masochistic self-denial. Again, if self-assertion is healthy, the adaptability will be, too, and vice versa. Yet, how | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| Adapted.....................14 | |
| here? ANSWER: Not exactly the same. Conditions are adapted to need and each sphere has a different | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| truth appears again in a new form, perhaps adapted to the civilization and characteristics of the particular | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| forget, these lectures are something alive. They are adapted to your progress, to the need of the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| work. I will use an approach that is adapted to your new insights. Let us first understand | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| not only an outline, but also specific guidelines adapted to the limits of a human being still | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| phase in the great cycle. Their teachings were adapted to this still immature stage, rather than to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| evident from the lecture itself. Prayer will be adapted to the conscious attitude and concept of any | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| not surprising that you are totally attached and adapted to this state of consciousness. And even when | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| insoluble situations, problems, and conflicts. The ego is adapted exclusively to the level of duality: this versus | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| such a powerful force that it must be adapted, so as not to explode an organism whose | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| business is still very small, the organization is adapted to the size and purpose of the firm | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| emulated ways of being, traits, and attitudes are adapted to the uniqueness of the seeker who incorporates | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| you -- always in a new way, always adapted exactly to what you need most at any | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| plan for this movement that is very organically adapted to a much greater reality than what you | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Addiction...................8 | |
| person has to find the cause of the addiction by experiencing it as his or her own | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| this produces further deliberate escapes, such as drug addiction, or alcoholism, or psychosis, or other measures. Addictions | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| greed; craving, which leads, in crass cases, to addiction. The craving for pleasure, although perhaps completely unconscious | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| previously, there are also many other forms of addiction, such as alcoholism. QUESTION: Some psychologists say that | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Some psychologists say that masturbation is a primary addiction. Is this connected with gluttony? ANSWER: I would | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of releasing ego over-functioning are alcoholism and drug addiction. Less extreme forms are self-alienation and mental states | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| to begin with, evasion may lead to drug addiction in one person; another may become a derelict | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| it can take the form of alcoholism, drug addiction, and all the artificial ways of obtaining relief | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |