| Encouraged..................20 | |
| Diligent students of positive thinking are therefore often encouraged to do just what is worst for them | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| is of course the mask self. It is encouraged by the world, because the world wants to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| Christ. At the beginning of this series I encouraged you, my friends, to ask all the questions | 22 SALVATION |
| image that only one side was developed and encouraged in each sex. I will explain this in | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of growth and personal independence, what should be encouraged is to learn to evaluate something as to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in some degree without being manifested. These are encouraged and strongly brought to the fore by the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and hinders your search. It must not be encouraged at a time when you cannot yet get | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| being, or authority. Obedience to authority has been encouraged by exponents of religion under the half-true and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| feel injustice in the world. False religion has encouraged and capitalized on this very sick tendency. It | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| into this submissive and dependent attitude. False religion encouraged fear, dependency, helplessness, and a humiliating, though often | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to repress and to subdue what should be encouraged in a constructive way. This overall ignorance fails | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| is not trusted to function organically and not encouraged to grow. A wrong kind of caution, an | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| sake of right behavior. The child could be encouraged from the beginning to develop inwardly by facing | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| cannot be forced either. It can only be encouraged or discouraged, just as feelings can. Feelings and | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| that says no must be continuously strengthened and encouraged. Yet, even those of you, my friends, who | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| making this connection now, you will be further encouraged in the right direction. Once again we can | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| that are not openly expressed. Unless they are encouraged to take these perceptions seriously, they cannot learn | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| joy, fulfillment, freedom and happiness. I have also encouraged you to imagine expanding your space, transcending the | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| be coincidental and haphazard, you will not be encouraged to improve the causes that you create, you | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you are held in His arms, consoled and encouraged by His sublime tenderness for you personally, rocked | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Encouragement...............16 | |
| part of development. For this, you need constant encouragement, strength, and blessing, apart from very specific, concrete | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| experience, a sign. This sign is given as encouragement to stay on your path, or it may | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| their sphere, some bright spot that signifies open encouragement or a certain strength that will flow into | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| neglect to cultivate the other forces that need encouragement to grow and blend harmoniously with your particular | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| You may find, for instance, how a little encouragement or compliment makes your spirit surge to heights | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| approval, let us say, in the form of encouragement. If an inordinate, and therefore unreal, need for | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| is often because the real need for approval, encouragement, success has unwittingly been forfeited. But instead of | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| growth that cannot be hurried. Yet it needs encouragement and preparation. It needs help to direct attention | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| your best inherent faculties. May these answers provide encouragement and strength, additional understanding, so that you do | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| words make sense and are an inspiration and encouragement. There are of course many degrees of consciousness | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| my friends, and these words are given as encouragement to continue on your beautiful path. Perhaps, at | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| turn out to be constant inner instruction: truth, encouragement, wisdom, guidance, specifically destined to your life right | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| themselves but too often this self-expression is curtailed. Encouragement to communicate feelings and thoughts -- as well | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| awareness of the larger plan will bring light, encouragement and strength to you, wherever you are now | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| All this happens constantly in human interaction. Such encouragement of evil is easy to push out of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| the opening of your channel. You receive advice, encouragement, words intended to give you courage and faith | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Encourages..................10 | |
| of course, unaware that he or she unconsciously encourages a tendency to stagnate, which is hidden underneath | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| partner not only continues to develop one-sidedly, but encourages this in the other as well. Nor can | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| inner duality, necessitate a struggle for living. This encourages ambitiousness, drives, and compulsions. In addition, these often | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the world at large. Obedience, as false religion encourages and teaches it, is completely incompatible with the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| it may be often utterly inadequate. Your blindness encourages the childish greed to reach for immediate fulfillment | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| there is perfectionism, which prohibits growth rather than encourages it, all three are present: pride, self-will, and | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| is very beneficial. Moreover, daydreaming of this kind encourages awareness of repressed needs. You will appreciate by | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| shy away from the word sin because it encourages self-destructive and unproductive guilt. Instead I concentrate on | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| order to squelch the gnawing guilt. This impairment encourages the false assumption that wanting to receive is | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| no escape. It dispenses with all sentimentality that encourages your weaknesses and self-evasions. But because of this | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| Encouraging.................9 | |
| a man, provided this development takes place without encouraging sick weakness and dependency. If woman develops those | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| need not be distorted and truth obscured by encouraging humanity's weakest, sickest, and most immature tendencies. It | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| imposed helplessness, you encourage it, as well as encouraging false religion, even if the weakness and clinging | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| weakness, not love; fear, not goodness; appeasing and encouraging abuse, not constructive living. It destroys harmony rather | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| accepting of what happens in the now, thus encouraging the unconscious to express itself. Once the unconscious | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| never tasted before. This is truly a wonderful, encouraging, and strengthening experience, after which you can never | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| this apparently hard law is the most hopeful, encouraging, liberating, and strengthening truth of all truths. It | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| actively involved with awakening this new awareness and encouraging it to express itself in practical ways. We | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| of nature, as intensely healing and soothing, as encouraging and incredibly desirable. But to those who are | 254 SURRENDER |
| Encrustations...............4 | |
| the so-called Christ within -- from all the encrustations. There have been some great spirits on earth | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| not alter the fact. The burden of the encrustations is heavy, and everyone feels the heaviness. All | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of the spirit that dwells deep within the encrustations, and long to come truly into your birthright | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| be a withdrawal of life from the outer encrustations, leaving them inanimate again. When the entity builds | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Endanger....................7 | |
| law, and God's acts in human history never endanger the spiritual life of man. Sometimes it is | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| of such strong, powerful emotions, and they can endanger you only as long as you are unaware | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| this is not so. Even unjustified criticism cannot endanger you, provided your attitude toward it is mature | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| never really hurts, nor does it destroy or endanger you. But you constantly embrace pain, either by | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| wish to know it, so as not to endanger yourself by opposing what you fear the world | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| I do not hold on to myself I endanger myself. And once you are conscious of this | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| that streams inside of you, but you also endanger yourself because this force will then reverse the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Endangered..................16 | |
| it seems to you that you are gravely endangered if you yield or let go. You seem | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you will discover that it amounts to feeling endangered because your world of Utopia is proven unreal | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| idea of it, and therefore you feel yourself endangered. Every indication of reality clashes with your illusion | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| conscious of a negative condition, they are more endangered by it. It is just the opposite. The | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| all of you are afraid of. You feel endangered without it. You do not realize that in | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| entirely untrue. Yet, you cannot help feeling threatened, endangered. Deep within, you panic as though your life | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| to be expedient because the psyche may feel endangered if it were to give vent to it | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| plans are disturbed, you feel your life is endangered. So you destroy happiness by the very process | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and helplessness increase until the soul is actually endangered. The danger comes not in the sense that | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| a part of you believes itself lost and endangered. To let go of that which seems to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| defensive, you are frightened; you feel threatened and endangered. There certainly are realistic dangers, and the human | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the truth of the matter. Are you really endangered or threatened because of hurt, frustration, or criticism | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| in incidents when your life is, or seems, endangered, or whether you fear the loss of others | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| vital, creative forces; or you feel lost and endangered. Thus, you cannot come into being. You will | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| distinct reason that you feel threatened and truly endangered without the doubt. It is as though doubt | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| live energy in your body, you might be endangered, particularly by the loss of your genitals. This | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |