| Engulfed....................4 | |
| do so. Then you are all the more engulfed in fear, never knowing when to trust your | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| or not, right at this point you are engulfed in one of humanity's major confusions. Underneath all | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| helplessness. It is no wonder that a person engulfed in this attitude becomes estranged from the real | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| not allow for this. The more you are engulfed in this emotional deviation, the more you repress | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Enhanced....................4 | |
| are actually similar. But the existing similarities are enhanced by the person who is doing the recreation | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and others, you and your life will be enhanced by it because what you offer is given | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| are active again. My learning processes, too, are enhanced. I feel very much in motion and my | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| do one's will. It results from the person's enhanced faculties and resources, through which forever greater possibilities | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| Enhances....................8 | |
| might bring forth an additional talent, too, that enhances and completes the one that has manifested already | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ego faculties with its universal self. Such integration enhances your individuality; it does not diminish it. It | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| your individuality; it does not diminish it. It enhances every one of your pleasures; it takes nothing | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| What is the confusion here? Full self-realization always enhances the uniqueness of the individual. It does not | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the consciousness of universal being -- and therefore enhances general love feelings. For when you are in | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| yourself. You have found that this very service enhances your fulfillment, just as this service requires you | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| issues of inner morality. Blind obedience to rules enhances laziness of thinking, the easy way of not | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and surrendering to her feelings for the man enhances her strength. There is no conflict for the | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Enhancing...................3 | |
| warranted, making her self-surrender justified and dignified, and enhancing her individuality. Giving up the determining ego will | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the energy and concentration is directed toward cultivating, enhancing, manifesting, and expressing the divine reality within. However | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| meet in a very harmonious, flexible, and mutually enhancing way. In any negative creation these two principles | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Enjoy.......................78 | |
| for the next period of testing, and can enjoy the fruits of what you have already achieved | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| you now think about what particular blessings you enjoy; it may be good health, or spiritual strength | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| within the soul will truly come alive and enjoy a deep, intimate contact with God's spirit world | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| They will completely fulfill their life tasks and enjoy a deep peace within themselves. QUESTION: I would | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| for certain friends. Furthermore, the human beings who enjoy the strengthened protection will, when striving to establish | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| not to be burdened by possessions. You can enjoy wealth when you conquer the temptation that money | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the planning -- the decision of how to enjoy the fruits of the merits of the past | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| fulfilled, in the new state you will really enjoy. As long as you are in the grip | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| you drink a good wine, or when you enjoy anything. It is only a question of degree | 18 FREE WILL |
| a certain time on the path you will enjoy life in spite of your difficulties even before | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to imagine that spirits live and laugh and enjoy themselves -- and work. Spirits in the higher | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| least occasionally, in a sphere where it can enjoy this particular pastime. Another may be drawn to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| may believe that not enough time remains to enjoy life, and so on. But this way of | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| heretofore unfamiliar strength, acumen, vitality, and ability to enjoy life as you have never done before. Thus | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| infinitely better. And you will have time to enjoy life infinitely better too when you lose the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| bliss that God wants all His children to enjoy. Before I turn to your questions, there is | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| the upward curve sets in again, and you enjoy the clear air of a gained truth a | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| reality, and yet spoil the life you could enjoy and could use for building up your spiritual | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| reaction sets in. Whenever you are happy and enjoy pleasure, in spite of this being a natural | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| When they are prohibited from doing what they enjoy most, they experience authority as hostile. When parental | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| smoothly, although a part of the personality may enjoy it -- usually the conscious side -- another | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| opposite extreme, of feeling guilty when you gratefully enjoy life, because you also detect a slight streak | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| on it, you on this earth plane could enjoy perfect happiness in every possible respect. For the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| others directly but because you just want to enjoy it, even this wish need not be selfish | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| might trigger off envy -- and you may enjoy this envy. It makes you feel strong and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| so that, little by little, you will all enjoy the glory that life can be, even on | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| be, even on this earth sphere. Learn to enjoy the serious and honest labor too that leads | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| a liability into an asset by trying to enjoy unhappiness. Superficially, this may appear to be a | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| cannot avoid unhappiness, I may just as well enjoy it. Furthermore, I want to alleviate the humiliation | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| white, and white is denied me, let me enjoy the all-black. This inner process propels the entire | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| will also be able to find what you enjoy about it -- no matter how much you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you suffer, while at the same time you enjoy certain aspects of the unhappiness you produce. You | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| aspects of the unhappiness you produce. You might enjoy, for instance, the provocation itself in such a | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| this, too, escapes your attention. Or you might enjoy the self-pity that ensues. Let us suppose that | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| yourself benefit by becoming a happier person and enjoy the right to be yourself without standing in | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happiness. Your unconscious concept is that if you enjoy something, your pleasure will automatically be at the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| still live. In that state you suffer and enjoy life alone. No matter how many dear ones | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the upward curve sets in again, and you enjoy the clear air of having climbed a little | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| try to imagine the divine bliss that spirits enjoy, your automatic association produces something that is usually | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| desire existence past death very much, like to enjoy and take pleasure in this present physical life | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| You are ready for new eventualities, ready to enjoy, to give and receive, and to experience pleasure | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| small percentage of their capacity to experience, to enjoy life, and to be creative. They are oblivious | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| depends on you. You can all relax and enjoy yourselves as much as possible and yet continue | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are still human, ordinary -- and thus enjoy life without feeling that you have to be | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| alternately one or the other. How can you enjoy life and rejoice in its richness if your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| will it so. They concentrate on what they enjoy because it is already free, while what requires | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| will not desire to remain idle. You will enjoy your periods of rest and relaxation, but this | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| always connected with a perfect life. One cannot enjoy life if one is imperfect; neither can one | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| experience satisfaction, revenge and gratified pride. Thus you enjoy living in a way that exactly opposes your | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| applies to your soul life. Most people, however, enjoy the symptoms -- the daydreams -- and do | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| could not grow at all, nor could you enjoy any kind of pleasure. Think of the individuals | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of life that every individual is meant to enjoy -- either peace or vibrancy and interest -- | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| longer feel effort, but feel movement and you enjoy it. Then you are truly over a major | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| more they cling to life, not because they enjoy life or because they are dynamically related to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| learn in each moment to value, appreciate and enjoy what life offers you, you must simultaneously become | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| in your life and that you fail to enjoy and appreciate. When you ignore the oneness between | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| which makes it possible to fully experience and enjoy, to have and give pleasure. The potent energy | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| faults and blindnesses, and you inadvertently begin to enjoy this. You do not immediately distinguish between the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| that while you indulge in the negativity you enjoy doing it? QUESTION: Yes, I am. ANSWER: The | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| for is caused by negative attitudes you actually enjoy and want to maintain. If you ascribe your | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| that I feel are wrong, evil. Yet I enjoy them; they feel pleasurable. But I feel guilty | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the inner knowledge that says, I want to enjoy life. There is unlimited abundance in the universe | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| for a good experience: all you do is enjoy it. But this is not true. There is | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| it is really quite impossible to live and enjoy yourself. The necessary faith to take the jump | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| creative joyousness that is here for you to enjoy. Missing out on it makes you very unhappy | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| all the power to create, to feel, to enjoy, to experience -- all worlds exist within. For | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| object is created. So every object you use, enjoy, or need fulfills its task. Its innermost nucleus | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| There are some objects you cherish, need and enjoy. They perform well for you. You may think | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| privileges and freedom that you will very much enjoy. Study these words and think about them and | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| often is so, because your real self cannot enjoy doing things you do not really want to | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| yourself be your best so you can truly enjoy the fruits of your efforts and feel deserving | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| guiltlessness exist and therefore the full capacity to enjoy all the pleasures, including sexual pleasure. QUESTION (Child | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| fear and distrust, chances are you will not enjoy the ride, nor will you be able to | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| to their task, feel it their right to enjoy the accompanying privileges. A person who is unwilling | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| unfulfilled in your vocation, if you do not enjoy your work, or find it meaningless, if you | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| know the fulfillment and positive states you now enjoy. The growth you have experienced on this path | 254 SURRENDER |
| healthy and productive way that you therefore generally enjoy. In this area you may be realistic and | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| precisely why you are successful and why you enjoy your work. But there may be other areas | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |