| Derives.....................14 | |
| how each and every one of your faults derives from one or all of these three basic | 36 PRAYER |
| self, and an artificially constructed, superimposed conscience which derives from the idealized self. The moralizing I discussed | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| intuitive reliable picture based on solid ground. It derives from yourself, from your own freedom, from the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| that self-punishment is due to guilt. The self-destructiveness derives from a certain inability to cope with problems | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| someone else. This is so because this current derives out of blindness, and it must make you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| it must make you blind. Since this current derives from a lack of understanding it will cause | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| is dependent on whether or not the decision derives from one or the other value system. There | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| accepts. They do not indicate real freedom, which derives only from awareness and comprehension. Outwardly, the rebellion | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| you into love is great indeed, for it derives from your innermost nature. The drive deriving from | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| letting go. If, again, one's sense of self derives exclusively from the ego, the personality is unable | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| form of hostility that whitewashes the self. One derives pleasure from doing this, although the pain that | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| which knows nothing beyond these confined walls and derives its identity, or reality, from being negative. Instead | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| unrealistic? They are unrealistic because the underlying thinking derives from the assumption that the universe has only | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| other level gives in to the contraction and derives most benefit from it. Until you have reached | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Descend.....................6 | |
| the effect of all the neglected deviations will descend upon you, as it were, in one fell | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| God's kingdom is somewhere outside, that it will descend to your earth, and that all you will | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| beauty of spiritual robes. The moment higher beings descend into darker worlds, their appearance automatically, according to | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be confirmed by human science. You have to descend into your unconscious in order to reach the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| day after tomorrow or next year, it will descend upon you, like a gift from heaven you | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| advice and authority so that heavenly bliss will descend upon you in a life beyond. The adherence | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| Descent.....................4 | |
| read that on the third day, after His descent into Hell, Christ went up to Heaven. The | 22 SALVATION |
| in spirit. Thinking you can avoid this apparent descent and yet attain spiritual growth is utterly unrealistic | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to be reached, and after that peak, a descent. And so all living things on the dualistic | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| regained the state of innocence through the laborious descent and simultaneous ascent of self-purification. Then power can | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Describes...................5 | |
| is in-between is within you. What the teaching describes is not only an emotional state the way | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| self- will that dictate all the details. This describes the difference between the outer and the inner | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| for faith and punishment for doubt. It simply describes the dynamics I discuss here. The overactive mind | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| being. This lecture is just an outline that describes certain very basic conditions and expressions which can | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| the concept of tradition: Tradition in our world describes merely an aspect of a certain specific reality | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Deserve.....................55 | |
| becomes accessible, until you have progressed enough to deserve it. Simply follow the Bible: Test everything and | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| are perhaps not yet on a level to deserve continuous bliss. However, they have fulfilled their lives | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| the limits of their possibilities, and need and deserve a time of recovery before they can resume | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| life, for that matter -- through which they deserve special help and guidance to enable them to | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| for. You have to pay the price and deserve it, for it is the highest gift. If | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| I am not the judge of what I deserve or not. I have to fight my way | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| has changed for the better, the parents now deserve a higher-developed spirit as their child. It may | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Something within you knows that you do not deserve love, and so you feel guilty. The more | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| a natural longing, you feel you do not deserve it. The guilt of hating those it loves | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| be punished by others, although I know I deserve it. It is much worse to be punished | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| I must not be happy. I do not deserve it. But when the voice of your divine | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| I hate? Therefore I know how much I deserve to be punished and despised. The bargaining you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| do I come by it? How do I deserve it? Am I or am I not a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| a tangent, using the famous I do not deserve it that comes up so often in the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| not in conscious thought -- I do not deserve that which I wish. Humanity is very confused | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| that benefits just me. Who am I to deserve this? Given these reservations, your wish capacity does | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| jeopardize obtaining what you want, because you don't deserve it. Needless to say, these doubts are the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| for suppressed positive tendencies which you now know deserve full right of expression. You will find that | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| guilt: the feeling of I do not really deserve it. This too is connected with what I | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| yourself -- while feeling that you do not deserve happiness but rather punishment because you are imperfect | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| claiming your freedom, asserting yourself, feeling that you deserve to be happy. Whenever you feel undeserving of | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| give you the trust in yourself you truly deserve. If you must have what you want without | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| you feel, deep inside, that you do not deserve all that. You do not even cultivate a | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| I want everything for myself, I do not deserve to receive -- the conflict would cease, even | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| fear or false guilt that you do not deserve it? Whatever it is, try to take these | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| in the proper balance between self-and other-centeredness. Others deserve the same consideration as the self. Others can | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| to them. Conversely, the less you feel you deserve fulfillment yourself, closing up to it because of | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| yourself, giving yourself airs that you do not deserve. The possibility that you can harbor such powers | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| than the deep knowledge that you do not deserve to receive when you refuse to give, more | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| selfishness and convince yourself that you do not deserve pleasure. The delight of loving, the delight that | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| let be. These two principles and their roles deserve much closer scrutiny. To activate means that the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| you hopeless because you feel you do not deserve and cannot have a more meaningful, fulfilled experience | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| cannot give yourself the fundamental respect that you deserve as a human creature. As long as you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| will yield the fulfillment that I desire and deserve all the more since I act as an | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| happen because you are evil and do not deserve the bliss, but because you cannot accept the | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| in the spirit that this is what you deserve because you are such a miserable creature -- | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| The force of your own conviction that you deserve this, that this is indeed possible and in | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and all resistance and doubt that you indeed deserve the best will vanish. The soul substance functions | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| that you have a right to fulfillment and deserve it because you are willing to give up | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| good and secure about the change. I do deserve it. This change is my birth-right which I | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| because you have given pain you do not deserve such an experience. But how can you break | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| pore and cell of your being that you deserve it. Your every pore and every cell are | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| say, in effect, I am beyond redemption. I deserve to be devastated. Since you are an integral | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| tell yourself -- belligerently -- that you do deserve fulfillment, peace of mind, pleasure and abundance, underneath | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| lack of faith in your higher self to deserve fulfillment and to expand and stretch your consciousness | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| give love only when you can feel you deserve the pleasure of doing so. You can receive | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| can receive love only when you feel you deserve it, which cannot happen if you do not | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| self- hate still proclaims that you do not deserve it. And you close yourself up involuntarily, in | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| give my heart and soul to God. I deserve the best in life. I serve the best | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| They are so different that they might well deserve two completely different words. And, as I said | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| manipulating way what you believe you do not deserve. These types of lower-self giving are manifestations of | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| justified, even if the other person happens to deserve the trust in realistic terms. In order to | 254 SURRENDER |
| deliberately to be able to trust those who deserve your trust, to follow their leadership, and to | 254 SURRENDER |
| with suspicion those who encourage your autonomy and deserve your trust. If you cannot trust yourself, you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| self-rejecting attitude, I am so bad that I deserve to be punished this way. You have all | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |