| Abundant....................5 | |
| feel only a pressing need. You may find abundant rational and valid explanations as to why the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| hopelessness, misery and poverty, that the universe is abundant joy in every respect and that you can | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| contradictory to true spiritual unfoldment. The universe is abundant in its joys, pleasures and bliss: human beings | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you have already begun to plant your new, abundant, rich, beautiful spiritual garden. When I say spiritual | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| therefore foolish to assume that a balanced, harmonious, abundant world order in which justice and peace exists | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Abundantly..................8 | |
| not need proofs anymore, you will receive them abundantly. These incidents will just be an additional confirmation | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| community and commonwealth. I find communism clearly and abundantly expounded in Scripture. I submit but a few | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| friends, the love force, the life force, is abundantly flowing toward each one of you, and also | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| little by little your personal unconscious misconceptions, making abundantly clear how they create the various conflicts that | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| inroads and have cultivated self-awareness. Then it becomes abundantly obvious. As long as your awareness of this | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| natural impulse, the spontaneous urge, is to give abundantly -- as abundantly and generously as all of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| spontaneous urge, is to give abundantly -- as abundantly and generously as all of nature does! This | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and anything that life has to give so abundantly. Thus, the defenses are to your detriment. They | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| Abuse.......................59 | |
| plane it may be. Another misunderstanding, misuse, or abuse that often arises out of the principle of | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| choosing freely and correctly and in abstaining from abuse of power lies divinity, love, wisdom, and a | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| With that freedom necessarily comes the possibility to abuse the given power and to use it contrary | 21 THE FALL |
| was only used by those who did not abuse this power. Absolute perfection exists only in God | 21 THE FALL |
| is often forced to battle against forces that abuse free will and divine law. If people take | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| worn out they hunt elsewhere. This is an abuse and cannot continue without ill effects. Such a | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| personality will have to make amends for the abuse -- even if it was done in ignorance | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| right way and the right circumstances where no abuse is ever possible, where the other's maturity meets | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| QUESTION: Could you give us some examples of abuse of the life force? ANSWER: The abuse of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of abuse of the life force? ANSWER: The abuse of the power current of your life force | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| similarities, and differences between anti-life force and the abuse of the life force? ANSWER: The abuse of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the abuse of the life force? ANSWER: The abuse of the life force is the anti-life force | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| powers. Such a person would be likely to abuse these powers, on the ground of the premise | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the same as not understanding -- and therefore abuse would be inevitable. QUESTION: I didn't mean my | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the truth from those who would misunderstand and abuse it. And it reveals it to those who | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can be damaging by leaving one open to abuse and it is equally doomed to failure. People | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Only the very immature, the spiritual infant, will abuse himself, not knowing that it cannot possibly grasp | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| many people are too childishly selfish not to abuse openness and outgoingness, especially if the latter is | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| does not create helplessness in the face of abuse. Quite the contrary. Full commitment presupposes wide-awake choosing | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| wishes to pursue. People use or even unconsciously abuse every truth teaching and spiritual philosophy in order | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| not love; fear, not goodness; appeasing and encouraging abuse, not constructive living. It destroys harmony rather than | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| with some organs that are more resistant to abuse. In spite of consistent abuse, they continue to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| more resistant to abuse. In spite of consistent abuse, they continue to function for a considerable time | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| yourself. You will find genuine, good defenses against abuse and you will feel good about them. Later | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| or her inherent omnipotence and abuses it. The abuse occurs when the omnipotence is put into the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| self still predominates over the spiritual, real self, abuse of these powers will be inevitable. Love has | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| others' negativity and see when their machinations could abuse you. The very pain that this causes makes | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| The important thing to see is that you abuse the energy that you should use toward facing | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| How can I be better than others? QUESTION: Abuse of power, of a position of authority? ANSWER | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| avoid confronting unpurified matter in the soul. Such abuse will turn out to be particularly costly and | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| states of perfection could not yet exist. This abuse and misuse, this dangerous escape from the necessary | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| this open state you cannot protect yourself against abuse. Nothing could be further from the truth. Only | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| for not being able to defend yourself against abuse. When you speak and think of opening up | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| by ruthless, selfish or irresponsible human beings who abuse the power, and use it for their own | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| not sought and put above all else, then abuse is the result. When these systems appeared in | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| cultivate on your road to unfoldment? Do you abuse this double principle in you? If one is | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| are equalized was clearly a reaction to the abuse of monarchy and feudalism. The inequality which is | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| of divine truth had come to countermand the abuse of truth, the distortion of the truth. But | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the truth. But with the second system, too, abuse set in, as it is bound to when | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| are not equal in expression to those who abuse the laws selfishly, distort them according to their | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| their actions and attitudes affect others adversely. The abuse of the laws may be on a more | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| democracy is again very obvious in that the abuse of power by the few stronger, more willful | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| are victimized by the greedy. Both extremes can abuse this system. The socialistically-minded can become more parasitic | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| and diligent ones, who risk and invest, can abuse the system by justifying their greed and power | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| expressions, of both categories, contain more possibility for abuse in this system, just because this system also | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| less freedom and, therefore, perhaps less possibility for abuse. On one level this may seem untrue -- | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| and freedom, the greater are the dangers of abuse and distortion. Freedom always contains more possibility of | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| and distortion. Freedom always contains more possibility of abuse. This is a universal reality within the soul | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| as well as in external expressions. When the abuse reaches its peak, the painful confusion of dualism | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| mind only, the possibility for error, distortion and abuse will always be present. A channel to perceive | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| run your life, how easy it is to abuse this freedom unless you confront your real, hidden | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| is needed to abstain from the temptations to abuse freedom! How much self-discipline is needed not to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| powerful part in you that secretly wishes to abuse power? Look at that part in you which | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| of an authority who tries to subdue you, abuse you, exploit you, or trample upon your human | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of all else. They will not need to abuse their power, a power invested in them by | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that any authority is out to humiliate and abuse you, your total surrender to God will show | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| desire to have power over others and to abuse this power. You may never have thought of | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| concerned, and that there was no injustice or abuse that would require your aggression. Positive aggression is | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is not only necessary to expose injustice and abuse, however. It is not merely a responsive action | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Abused......................28 | |
| free will but also with a certain power, abused this power. I explained how this Fall of | 21 THE FALL |
| way a separation occurred between those who had abused their power and those who had not. I | 21 THE FALL |
| knowledge, no matter how much science may be abused temporarily. Therefore it is a mistake to advocate | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| eros, or perhaps because the soul has greedily abused the beauty of the erotic force without building | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| they are used in that way, they are abused and they therefore lose their validity. They become | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| The very teachings I give you can be abused in the same way. It is never done | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| hide what was behind it. Now you feel abused, taken advantage of, without realizing that it was | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| face life as it is. Positive thinking, when abused, avoids facing that which is now. It can | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to a mere formula. Acceptance also can be abused and misinterpreted. In its healthy form, acceptance helps | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to find where and how you have ignorantly abused the power current in you, God will answer | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| answer. Then try to find where you have abused the power current and connect these instances with | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| which set up resistance to truth. Truth is abused by making it a tool for the rulership | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your inner deviations and conflicts and therefore be abused by negative motivations. Hence, it would lead to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it. Systems and approaches are often misunderstood and abused; people are misled into a temporary hopefulness, into | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| for human concern and philosophies can all be abused to avoid facing where you, and you alone | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| sufficiently assertive not to be stepped on and abused. The often fine balance in these forces of | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| an individual's psychic power. Such power could be abused. But whenever this ability grows organically as a | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| inner makeup, it is natural and cannot be abused in the service of power drives and negativity | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| and abusive. Now, even if authority is being abused, those who are unwilling to assume the demanding | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the rulership by power or manipulation and then abused their position and took advantage of their power | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| this double principle in you? If one is abused, then the other must be too, for they | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| feudalism in the divine sense, not in the abused sense. It must proceed, as all cellular growth | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| a characteristic of monarchy and feudalism was being abused. Another facet of divine truth had come to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| diminishes the new truth. Now the equality becomes abused and a uniformity sets in that is no | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| every single divine reality can be distorted and abused. When humanity reaches this approach to human problems | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| and to spiritual life. However, it is often abused and misdirected and therefore it is seen as | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| words that have indeed often been misused and abused. But these words have nevertheless a true origin | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| evil, devil. All these words have been grossly abused. That is true. But they nevertheless indicate only | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |