| Environmental...............8 | |
| this path can be so strongly affected by environmental influences? Can you help me in this respect | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and I am doing that. The reason why environmental influences are strong can be manifold, since there | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| artist or a scientist, in spite of contrary environmental influences in youth. This is due to the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| infancy, every personality forms certain impressions due to environmental influences or to sudden, unexpected experiences. These impressions | 38 IMAGES |
| and character trends -- and also by certain environmental factors in the formative years. But this basic | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| on conditions of a particular civilization and on environmental factors. There is no easy answer here. But | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the laws that work according to their environmental conditions. For example, an electric current will manifest | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| to live out yours. Your imperfect parents and environmental conditions simply brought the problems to the fore | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Environments................3 | |
| of each of these tendencies manifesting within certain environments, and other tendencies coming to the fore with | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| is not in the country or the outer environments, but these outer environments may bring the inner | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| country or the outer environments, but these outer environments may bring the inner conflict to the fore | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Envisage....................17 | |
| you cannot truly solve these problems unless you envisage this great basic transition. If you can occasionally | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| cannot discover the shame if you do not envisage the exact opposite of your pretense. It is | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| are aware of your need, you can also envisage the fact that someone else may be personally | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| in fact, they are interdependent. You can then envisage the many other choices you have on any | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| loving and you do not let go. You envisage either the false version of love or the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| contains all wisdom and truth you can possibly envisage. The truth is so far-reaching and so directly | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| alone means for your future. What can you envisage afterwards? Can you envisage that more is possible | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| future. What can you envisage afterwards? Can you envisage that more is possible? What is this more | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to the mental level, where you cannot really envisage the infinite vistas of experience, of expansion, of | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| have challenged your negative outlook and begin to envisage new possibilities, a completely different solution may appear | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| possibility of the very worst. If you can envisage the possibilities of all life manifestations, because life | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| levels in spite of your having recognized them. Envisage this possibility and observe yourself from this point | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| self-doubts. Probe with your active, deciding faculty to envisage alternatives other than the one you chose. Play | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| to it. Then do the same with selfwill. Envisage yourself in a new state of reaction in | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| By exposing it, you make it possible to envisage your new potential. In the next Question Answer | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| and many other variables, that you cannot possibly envisage requires exacting research. You must also imagine that | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| of those beliefs that need to be challenged. Envisage that in the idea of forever meeting every | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Envisaged...................6 | |
| to the consciousness. If this is not realistically envisaged, the person may be under the impression of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| near goals. Only gradually can further goals be envisaged, until true serenity will come by itself. The | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| earth sphere, is indescribable happiness. Once this is envisaged, vast and beautiful possibilities are opened up. Be | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| nonlife cannot ever be totally desired or even envisaged as being free of conflict, for it makes | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| comes only when the feared opposite can be envisaged and accepted if need be. When you no | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| second major phase of the work can be envisaged: the phase in which you practice extending yourself | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Envision....................4 | |
| are on this path should think about it, envision it, and know that its time is bound | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| free and give you a strength you cannot envision now. For those of you who have not | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| chance to do so because you begin to envision the possibility of a change in yourself -- | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| strife exists. As long as humanity fails to envision an altogether new way of interrelating, peace cannot | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Envy........................68 | |
| people, if honest, often detect in themselves some envy, or a slightly malicious joy over the misfortune | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| underlings are the spirits of evil, hate, murder, envy, prideful arrogance and other vices. They are embodiments | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| other hand, you may be completely void of envy, so you do not have a specialist of | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| so you do not have a specialist of envy attached to you. But another person, not inferior | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| his or her overall development, may have this envy specialist around because of this fault. So you | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the spheres of darkness and disharmony, evil and envy, hatred and prejudice, war and greed would be | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| stealing, wickedness or are now only selfishness, jealousy, envy, resentment, laziness, or whatever else, makes no difference | 22 SALVATION |
| out to impress others? You might trigger off envy -- and you may enjoy this envy. It | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| off envy -- and you may enjoy this envy. It makes you feel strong and powerful at | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| Simultaneously, the submissive type may also admire and envy the despised aggression of others, in spite of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| focus on this goal. Take any negative emotion: envy, bitterness, fear, helplessness -- and most indicative of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| negative emotions, such as hostility, resentment, aggressiveness, and envy, but also certain psychological conditions. It is important | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| really wish for. Under these circumstances, you may envy others and covet what they have, because you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| that many other destructive emotions, such as jealousy, envy, or lust, also contain anger. Anger may be | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| a personal relationship. The sixth cardinal sin is ENVY. Again, I do not have to go deeper | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| What I said about covetousness also applies to envy. I have discussed envy on many previous occasions | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| covetousness also applies to envy. I have discussed envy on many previous occasions. QUESTION: Is there something | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| previous occasions. QUESTION: Is there something like healthy envy? ANSWER: No, there is not, although envy might | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| healthy envy? ANSWER: No, there is not, although envy might, under certain circumstances, lead to a healthy | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| contact with someone whom he feels compelled to envy and thus may be pulled out of his | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| person is ashamed of hate and hostility, of envy and vindictiveness, these trends fester in the unconscious | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| other sex for its advantages. Hence men secretly envy women for their privileged position of not having | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| more is expected of him. Women, in turn, envy men their privileged position of having greater freedom | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| particular fulfillment. But beyond the fence, where no envy and jealousy exist, there is no such limitation | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| with which you say no. There is an envy in you of the feminine sex, for on | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| impatient with your own evolution or development, concerns envy. This is a much more important topic than | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| to see that wherever their life is problematic, envy exists. Wherever there is no problem, they are | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| is no problem, they are free from it. Envy gives rise to self-hatred and to running away | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| reconvert it to its original nature. What causes envy is again the dualistic concept, in which life | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the other has is the nature of all envy. This points to the limitation with which humanity | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| in its abundance, and really knowing this makes envy impossible. What the other person has is not | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| misconception presents innumerable problems. It not only creates envy, but also guilt; it paralyzes the relaxed powerful | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| be no need to put the brakes on. Envy, guilt, dishonesty, and the belittling of others create | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| convert it into destructive power. When you feel envy, or -- looking at the other side of | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| same energy that may now manifest as hostility, envy, hatred, rage, bitterness, self-pity, or blame -- can | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| than the evil traits themselves, including spite, cruelty, envy, hostility, and selfishness. How can pride, selfwill or | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| destructive attitudes such as selfwill, pride, fear, greed, envy, malice, cruelty, spite, and selfishness. The majority of | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| range of feelings including faults, hostility, reality- distortions, envy, hate, fear, pride, and anger, to name a | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you can ignore a reaction of ill will, envy, or blaming resentment in yourself in spite of | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| why your anger, your hostility, your jealousy, your envy, and your unfair, one- sided demands are truly | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| guilt, self-doubt, weakness, and lingering ill-effects. Jealousy and envy, however, are never justified, and are never healthy | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| all about. Let us now return to jealousy, envy, and competitiveness. Why are they absolutely never true | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| or experiences something that they do not, jealousy, envy and competitiveness come in. Why are these feelings | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| -- this is the case with jealousy and/or envy -- you also negate the fact that it | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| not bring this knowledge to bear on your envy, on your anxiety that others may have more | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| if you first examined your areas of jealousy, envy, and competitiveness very closely; second, if you admitted | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| if you admitted that whatever it is you envy, you also push away; and, third, if you | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you reject aspects of the very thing you envy which are necessary for acquiring it. This would | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you to the realization that others whom you envy must obviously have fulfilled the natural law inherent | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| it. Therefore nothing needs be begrudged. When you envy, see how you deliberately destroy your chance of | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| world's ever-available abundance. Competitiveness -- a variation of envy and jealousy -- also departs from the wrong | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| utilized their creative faculties more than you who envy them. They have possibly found their niche in | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of the destructive and contradictory attitudes contained in envy, jealousy, resentments, competitiveness, blame, and so on, should | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| path. You can say, Yes I have hate, envy, blame, bitterness, irrational demands, or whatever they may | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Do I pay the price for what I envy? Do I really make my commitment to whatever | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| commitment to whatever it is I resent and envy other people for? If I do not make | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| cruelty, anger, and rage, and their byproducts of envy, jealousy, greed, dishonesty, and so on -- their | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| may have other things that those whom you envy do not have, and that there is a | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| so much wish to have, you so much envy grown-up people for. You can gain more and | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| one feels inferior to the other, resentment, fear, envy become inescapable, and that, too, closes the heart | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| man and woman have nothing to fear, to envy, to resent in the other sex. Therefore they | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| be less perfect than the inner greed, jealousy, envy, tight ambitiousness and vanity involved here, not to | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Let us look at them first. Primarily, you envy leadership in others. You are also competitive, but | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| out to punish and deprive you. Since you envy the leaders, you also want to be a | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| dichotomy. On the one hand, you resent and envy leadership and battle against it in others; on | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| in whatever fashion, you have no right to envy and resent leadership in others. Your cases have | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Now let us discuss what leadership means. You envy and resent leadership so much because you act | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| they receive for it, will fill you with envy. That in itself can be a measurement of | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |