| Aloneness...................16 | |
| the state of union -- there is no aloneness any more. In your present state, you are | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| within. The way to Him is through accepting aloneness. Such acceptance will strengthen the independence and self-responsibility | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| support you in the face of fear and aloneness, but recognizing and bravely encountering them. Only then | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you. In other words, this interim state of aloneness must first be experienced. The great mystics designate | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| why this is so. You see in their aloneness and separateness people believe deep down in their | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are. It will change your state from aloneness and emptiness to abundance in every respect. My | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| content themselves with the pseudo-security of separateness and aloneness, for this offers less threat, or so it | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| people continue to go alternately through periods of aloneness and acute longing, then temporary fulfillment of a | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| growing person comes to see that periods of aloneness afford him or her some opportunity to open | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| relationships, the same holds true. Alternating periods of aloneness and relating have their own, built-in safety valves | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| is an illusion: the illusion of death and aloneness. Awareness has to be fought for. It does | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| remains the same. The moment you fear your aloneness, you must also understand that relating to the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| difficult as being alone. And only when your aloneness is no longer difficult will the group living | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| by yourself and with yourself, a state of aloneness, is necessary to find more of yourself. However | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| keep predominantly to themselves may have created their aloneness precisely because of their fear of contact. But | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| secondarily fear of contact with others. Consequently, this aloneness will not fill the need for privacy. People | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Alongside...................3 | |
| the strongest responsibilities. By carrying the heaviest burden alongside His exalted position, He gave another example for | 22 SALVATION |
| all the natural and healthy vegetation and structures alongside. Destroying the barricade in such a violent way | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| life. Your adult thinking has to express itself alongside the childish destructive thinking about the issue in | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Aloof.......................10 | |
| the risk of getting wounded; it thinks remaining aloof is a desirable state. In other words, you | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| reveal anything. They want to remain alone and aloof. They will not touch the experience of revealing | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| longer be rejected. Since the rejecter seems cold, aloof, and free of emotions, this behavior pattern -- | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| add to it the newer experience that remaining aloof brings censure and loneliness. The latter causes you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| live up to and pride in being invulnerable, aloof, and superior. The co-existence of these mutually exclusive | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| They may discover in themselves a reaction of aloof criticism and contempt for all people who assert | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| one also has to be completely indifferent and aloof from all human emotions so as not to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| self-hate, because they think they should be proud, aloof, and independent, not seeing that one could yield | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| God. Or you may feel powerful by staying aloof from others, never fully opening your heart, but | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| from a teacher from whom you inwardly keep aloof, and this is true to a degree. But | 254 SURRENDER |
| Aloofness...................6 | |
| rejecter is strong. Therefore love becomes weakness, while aloofness is a sign of strength, at least in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| qualities worthy of emulation, but certainly not the aloofness from love and the inhibition of displaying the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you the part which believes that strength is aloofness or coldness. When you find that, you will | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| person will hide it behind a mask of aloofness and pseudo-strength. Another will hide it behind a | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| them to prove strength and independence, superiority and aloofness, would be deeply ashamed of the goodness another | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| for power seem to have something in common: aloofness from their emotions, non-attachment to others, and a | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Aloud.......................3 | |
| a message by thought instead of pronouncing it aloud. If the motive is mere embarrassment and unwillingness | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| one of you will spontaneously feel like meditating aloud and little by little others can participate. Let | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| current in each word you speak silently or aloud. You must clearly enunciate and then examine the | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Alphabet....................4 | |
| toward B. You can go through the whole alphabet and you will find that there are that | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| conflicts. QUESTION: Once something is learned, like the alphabet, we never have to go back and learn | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| little crossnesses. This seems to me like the alphabet. ANSWER: It is not really falling back, my | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you had learned the whole of this particular alphabet, while you really only learned part of it | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Alter.......................48 | |
| spiritual laws which with time will affect and alter the imperfect emotional currents in the soul. Who | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| any object -- exists concretely and does not alter its shape according to people's attitudes. In other | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| he has forgotten it. However, this does not alter the fact that he has committed the crime | 18 FREE WILL |
| you from the consequences, because ignorance does not alter the law of cause and effect. But what | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| searched in the wrong direction and have to alter the direction by asking yourself about yourself and | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be paid for each desired gratification, does not alter the circumstances in the least. In your unwillingness | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| expect God to decide for you or to alter an unpleasant situation without your active participation in | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and his conviction sincere. But that does not alter the fact that his judgment is wrong. More | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| this is accomplished will you gradually begin to alter some of your wrong trends and begin to | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| in your life. You have the power to alter your life completely, but not if you merely | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| if you merely change superficially, by trying to alter only your actions. You can change your life | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| when the child grows up, the conclusion will alter with the growing process. Furthermore, parents who are | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| how much longer then does it take to alter emotions! For instance, you have harbored certain opinions | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| was adopted unconsciously and in ignorance does not alter the results. To achieve a positive outcome, a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| view and to accept that which you cannot alter. The more you battle against all that you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of the previous incarnation. But this does not alter the psychological factors in the least. In fact | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| grace -- also human instruments -- does not alter the fact that it originally comes from the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in particular, special instances. But this does not alter what I said about seeking contact with the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unconsciously harbor destructive tendencies and wishes, you will alter them with the understanding that they are no | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| your real self. Only then will you also alter the outer situation. As you go through this | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| thus often bring rupture and disharmony, does not alter the truth that even such intercommunication furthers your | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| realizing that this striving is misdirected does not alter the fact of its existence. Once you learn | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| genitals. This misconception occurs frequently, which does not alter its real threat to you. The child in | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| there are beliefs you do not wish to alter even though you may sense they are somehow | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| mental grasp. This increases your creative power to alter the seemingly static reality. You can expand reality | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| -- being unaware of this fact does not alter it. It is part of your path to | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| be unconscious in many, but that does not alter the fact. The burden of the encrustations is | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| you face fear, you can recognize, experience, and alter it according to reality and a more constructive | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| and (b) that you have the power to alter them and find new avenues of expression for | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| was. Thus, if the creative consciousness does not alter the course at a certain point, it becomes | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| consciousness, with its knowing, will, and determination can alter. Creating becomes so involving, and the pleasure of | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| momentum makes it more and more difficult to alter the course. The ongoing negative cycle and its | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| open to truth and change, your life will alter drastically. Pain will become proportionately less frequent, and | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| good within you. Only when you search to alter your own attitude and discover that your suffering | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| your ultimate fate. Nothing in the world can alter this, even if the little mind is uselessly | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| suffering and powerless. This perception of life can alter only to the degree that the ego overcomes | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the beauty of your real self. Thus you alter the course you have set in motion and | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| rather than a choice you are free to alter whenever you so decide. By assuming the sole | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| into material manifestation so you can recognize and alter it. Never think that this is all of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and your present state of manifest consciousness will alter according to your seed plan. Then you can | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| false belief of all humankind. Only when you alter this belief with courage and faith will the | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| will be the most fascinating study and will alter the approach to teaching all other topics. Other | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| you are called upon to face and to alter, if necessary. Each entrance to a circle represents | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| a personal, biased god, is supposed to magically alter the life stream and life's laws for your | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| it in new strength, wisdom, liberation, will already alter your outlook toward frustration, so that when another | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| religion you have outgrown. But this does not alter the fact that your soul cries for salvation | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| correct the thought? In time your perception will alter, you can undertake the correction of these thoughts | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| so does your perception of creation begin to alter, to widen and deepen. You glimpse connections you | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |