| Alternatively...............3 | |
| safe and gain a minimal amount of pleasure. Alternatively, if this is your main image, you may | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in a frenzy of frustration, bitterness and tension. Alternatively, you may manage also to deny -- on | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| a cynical and negative attitude toward the world. Alternatively, you may put on a false appearance faith | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Alters......................6 | |
| measures are being taken for special purposes -- alters and assimilates the appearances of the surroundings. Through | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| And if these do not happen now, that alters nothing, for one day things are bound to | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| hands. This is the all-important fact that truly alters your entire self-perception and attitude toward living. Not | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| distorted version. If this happens, the energy also alters its manifestations. Thus the manifestation of evil is | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| you only see small segments. This partial vision alters the nature of the perceived aspects of reality | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| divine perfection has undergone the distortion that temporarily alters its manifestation into a lesser expression, then distortion | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Altruism....................2 | |
| the question of morality versus pleasure, selfishness versus altruism, self-deprivation versus depriving others. The whole concept of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| warrant self-gratification. At other times, you will waive altruism because what is on the scale does not | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Amass.......................3 | |
| I say greedy, I mean you want to amass advantages without shouldering the responsibility of paying the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| blindness and breed further blindness. Greed wishes to amass selfishly when this is not necessary in the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| nothing away. On the contrary, you strive to amass more, you try to cheat life by manipulating | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Amazing.....................3 | |
| the reasons for this, you may make some amazing discoveries about yourself. Why do certain issues bother | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| at moments of discontent and disconnection, will experience amazing results. What is it now that I do | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| complicated and many-faceted. This latter course will bring amazing new vistas and freedom. If we use the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| Ambiguous...................4 | |
| first, seem unclear and, perhaps, even a little ambiguous. It will not be as satisfactory as if | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| a beloved person, there are in you confused, ambiguous, as well as ambivalent emotions you are unaware | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| that is absolutely unhampered by selfish motives, by ambiguous, confused, contradictory emotions, by uncertainty or fear, or | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| the self prompts the use of language in ambiguous ways. One can generalize about the truth while | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| Ambition....................28 | |
| as you know, every thought, every feeling, every ambition, and every act is formed in spirit and | 22 SALVATION |
| about the ambivalence of overambition and lack of ambition in life? In other words, where does it | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| Now let us discuss first a lack of ambition. As I promised you, I will analyze faults | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| once the underlying factor of a lack of ambition was benevolence, harmony, a certain type of tolerance | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| if you have the shortcoming of lack of ambition, this very fault can tempt to hold on | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| currents in you. The harm of lack of ambition is a very grave one. Of course it | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| it is neither desirable nor necessary to have ambition in all respects of life, for this would | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| decisions, will shed a light on this too. Ambition is often a price for what you desire | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| If you give in to your lack of ambition and then seem to be left wanting in | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| perhaps only be paid by efforts that needed ambition. Spiritually, a lack of ambition is a very | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| efforts that needed ambition. Spiritually, a lack of ambition is a very great hindrance. This sluggishness will | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| line of least resistance, which shows lack of ambition. On the other side, the price is the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| greatest faults without exception. To understand lack of ambition from this point of view will, perhaps, make | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| weakness from this angle: If I have no ambition, if it is so difficult for me that | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| would again become the opposite extreme of no ambition, and imbalance would result. The spiritual person in | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| decide for what purpose and where to have ambition; on the other hand, the ambitiousness should cease | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| people who tend to be lazy; they lack ambition and are satisfied with a certain amount of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| ego with all its vanity, pride, fear, and ambition. This ego layer believes that the best thing | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| was unconscious becomes conscious. QUESTION: Does patience hinder ambition? ANSWER: Patience, if it is really just that | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| detrimental. Impatience, however, will hinder the fulfillment of ambition, because impatience is a form of immaturity. It | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to a more direct aim of a particular ambition, is not even the point here. I can | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not strive anymore in the direction of his ambition. Also I feel that nothing is so locked | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| our friend should give up striving for his ambition. But the difference between healthy, relaxed striving and | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as impatience, so easily confused with striving and ambition. That is what blocks success, not the physical | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| full impact, will automatically diminish the drive for ambition, success, approval, impressing others, being glorious, special, and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| lack of perfection conducive to a loss of ambition for further development? ANSWER: Not at all. I | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| activity. Let us say that someone is without ambition -- and there is such a thing as | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| there is such a thing as a healthy ambition -- and is lethargic, withdrawn, apathetic, and indifferent | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Ambitions...................5 | |
| Motivations of actions, as well as desires and ambitions, have to be examined with a maximum of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a result of artificially accelerated emotions, desires and ambitions. The artificiality, in turn, is the result of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ourselves, whether or not we can realize certain ambitions. But he still wants to attain his ambitions | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ambitions. But he still wants to attain his ambitions. ANSWER: I can only say what I see | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can only say what I see obstructs his ambitions. Whether he tries to dissolve these obstructions because | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Ambitious...................4 | |
| helpful for you to know this. A very ambitious spirit may sometimes even ask for a particularly | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| that you, if you happen to be an ambitious person, have chosen an unnecessarily difficult life, perhaps | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| that something favorable came forth when he was ambitious, while nothing favorable happened otherwise. When the approval | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| will actually be very successful. He will be ambitious and will use all his resources to satisfy | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| Ambitiousness...............8 | |
| would mean a waste of strength. But when ambitiousness is cultivated, it should be kept in mind | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to have ambition; on the other hand, the ambitiousness should cease when it is time for desirelessness | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| duality, necessitate a struggle for living. This encourages ambitiousness, drives, and compulsions. In addition, these often confront | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| false kind. There will not be any distorted ambitiousness, compulsion, and haste. Serenity in the healthy way | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the extent. You may not realize that this ambitiousness is actually a vital solution by which you | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| tendency, you cannot be aware of how this ambitiousness affects others. You are ignorant of how you | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| divine nucleus is applied to the separated ego. Ambitiousness and competitiveness are a distortion of the inner | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| perfect than the inner greed, jealousy, envy, tight ambitiousness and vanity involved here, not to mention the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Ambivalence.................12 | |
| I am now ready. QUESTION: What about the ambivalence of overambition and lack of ambition in life | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| negative emotions such as fear, hostility, separateness, self-pity, ambivalence, and vindictiveness. These emotions make love impossible. It | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| pleasure principle is attached to an exactly similar ambivalence. This, then, creates a conflict in actual relationships | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| and the whole world for your misery. The ambivalence is that while you feel, I am so | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ego becomes unbearable. Thus humans find themselves in ambivalence. On the one hand, they fear letting go | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| ambivalent about how it should experience life. Another ambivalence follows from this: the desire for and the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| remain unfaced and untouched, you live in painful ambivalence. For you cannot ever go in one direction | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| side and face it -- face the entire ambivalence. Only then do you find the ultimate reality | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| not approached according to this truth, and your ambivalence is not faced, accepted, and understood, the process | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| not seem to work. They disregard their unconscious ambivalence and give up. If, for example, you have | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Christ. His name would never elicit so much ambivalence and negativity if divine truth had not been | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| individual life. You have a great deal of ambivalence about this melding. On the one hand, you | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Ambivalent..................6 | |
| side appears to exist. The human being is ambivalent; there are many contradictory currents in you. The | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to reality can bring. When a relationship is ambivalent between people, they tend to create daydreams that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| are in you confused, ambiguous, as well as ambivalent emotions you are unaware of. They vaguely disturb | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| in the past. I am extremely frightened and ambivalent about this person and feel that I can't | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| knowledge of its opposite. First humanity's attitude is ambivalent about how it should experience life. Another ambivalence | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the most secret intention, the exact balance of ambivalent feelings and the real reasons for making a | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |