| Gaining.....................31 | |
| compare this with the spiritual knowledge you are gaining now, and see where this knowledge may be | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| the one courageous step of becoming yourself and gaining true security and the true appreciation of your | 31 SHAME |
| little, certain adjustments will be made, and without gaining consciousness, birth will occur with the other parents | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| all sexual experience. QUESTION: Homosexuality seems to be gaining wider exposure, understanding, and acceptance. Would you consider | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| but it can only be the beginning of gaining inner proof through inner enlightenment and certainty. Outer | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| temperament to alleviate this insecurity by means of gaining power over others. This does not only apply | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| self and also life. This control comes with gaining a deeper and more meaningful experience of life | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you can rely upon deep within yourself. By gaining self-respect, you become less and less dependent on | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| that emotion. By observing this attitude and mood, gaining a little distance from it, you will experience | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| exercises. This is always the first step toward gaining the necessary clarification. At such time, you may | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| imperfections which you can now observe calmly, while gaining more understanding about them and thus nearing perfection | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| In such cases, the good foundation you are gaining on the path is lacking. And therefore, when | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| a question of preventing the struggling soul from gaining harmful and hindering knowledge, or helping the soul | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in the ultimate sense, let down anyone else. Gaining this truthfulness with the self is, after all | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of survival -- or self-preservation -- aims at gaining, maintaining, and improving life. By its very nature | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| first step in growth and the process of gaining maturity is to become aware of emotions you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of having a specific aim, namely that of gaining insights about your inner self in a meaningful | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| error. However, the unconscious aim and claim for gaining love through success cannot be granted because approval | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| a misconception, and therefore it cannot work. By gaining the one, you do not gain the other | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the need for approval, at the expense of gaining love, is an unhealthy need. Now, why do | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| will not weaken you. On the contrary, through gaining deeper, fuller insight and thus coming closer to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| amounts to saying, I have no way of gaining understanding about my parents. I tell you, even | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| now. There is no other real way of gaining peace, but there are many false, illusory ways | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| gain a little distance from yourself. Just by gaining more objectivity, you may become more at home | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| out of a healthy conviction and inner freedom, gaining sustenance from your inner resources, and using worthy | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| of you begin to experience the meaning of gaining true independence through giving up childish, limited self-centeredness | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| one's life, and feels losing ground, rather than gaining, because the old ways of coping can no | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| not least, you do it to succeed in gaining affection, love, approval, respect, and acceptance, without which | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| and hidden way -- for the sake of gaining approval from others. You may express this state | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you believed just the opposite about your childhood. Gaining this knowledge first intellectually is the necessary preparation | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| will see, as you grow in stature through gaining selfhood, that more of your real being is | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Gains.......................12 | |
| more. Prayer is most constructive if one also gains a bit of insight about one's own inner | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rejection of the loving parent. The child then gains the impression that the loving parent is weak | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| which is our vantage point, one person who gains inner truth in the sense of this pathwork | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| months prove a fruitful time during which the gains of this past year can ripen and come | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| energy become increasingly more vibrant and mobile. Consciousness gains in awareness; energy gains greater creative power to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| vibrant and mobile. Consciousness gains in awareness; energy gains greater creative power to move and to make | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be attained without investing effort, realizing that the gains outweigh the investment. The spiritually mature person has | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| for the sake of power or for outer gains in the eyes of others, or out of | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| lookout for its own little advantages. These personal gains may be material; they may manifest in pride | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| meets his own weakness, faces it and thereby gains his real strength. He realizes that his weakness | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| spreads and multiplies, so that the Christ force gains an ever-greater impetus. QUESTION: This lecture seems to | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| more independent he or she becomes. The child gains more experience and therefore more fulfillment. The fully | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Game........................39 | |
| not fulfilled your job at all. Play a game, imagine your life depends on presenting a convincing | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| taken for granted. So the individual plays a game, acting as though the possibility of a favorable | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| I can go on pretending. Because of the game, the fallacy of the no as well as | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| awareness that you, in a sense, played a game and deliberately constructed the false feelings, let us | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| self in reality -- it is all a game, how to get by most easily with a | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| this structure a false, exaggerated hurt -- the game of, See what you have done to me | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| against the injustices of life, and the masochistic game of harping on one's case against life. Yet | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| of others. This is only one example. The game itself must be exposed not only to reveal | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| charade out of your life. The role or game you adopt in the illusion that it eliminates | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| more insight you have into the absolutely losing game you play with life when you hold on | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| succumb to the temptation to play the doom game with life, thus fortifying a negative chain reaction | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| feels as yet unable to relinquish this terrible game he plays with life. But he feels himself | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| embedded misconceptions responsible for wanting to retain this game. But now there is a new hope. The | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| say, You are doing it to me. The game of making others guilty is so pervasive that | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| the puny, momentary pleasure. Those who play this game truly harm themselves and others, and I strongly | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| aware of your blind involvement in this guilt-shifting game. But how about the victim? How is that | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| a recipient, leaving you out of the magnificent game of life. This is what really hurts and | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| While you are involved in the subtle inner game of disassociating yourself from the causes you set | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| the dishonesty, the hiding, the projecting, and the game playing that exist on subtle levels in your | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the conclusion that human beings are victims. No game is deadlier and more painful. Yet no resistance | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| devastates you and you exaggerate it, playing a game with yourself. Shame applies to your image, your | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| without any real cause. Part of the dishonest game may be to aggrandize the suffering in order | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| distortions of distortions of distortions and make a game of it. I give you this knowledge to | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| is the positive origin of playing the victim game? ANSWER: The distortion is self-exoneration at the expense | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| self will no longer get away with its game, because you will meet it with truth. Love | 228 BALANCE |
| no sense at all and has become a game on the part of man, who does not | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| and blame male authority and play the victim game. Similarly, to the degree man does not face | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| guilts, and weaknesses, he will play a power game in one form or another and then resent | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| of losing her autonomy. Both play the same game but hesitate to see how they mutually create | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| He compensates for this by overemphasizing the power game. The woman hides the part in her where | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| apparent justification. The woman will use the victim game; the man will use the blame and superiority | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| the man will use the blame and superiority game. He will blame women for exploiting and using | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| grow out of my obstructions. This is a game, a kind of deliberate but destructive playfulness, which | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| power without grave consequences. There is no such game that does not have a grave effect. The | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| have a grave effect. The power of this game needs to be made conscious. It can apply | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| You then forget that you had started this game in a spirit of superstition or perhaps in | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| superstition of pessimism. What was begun as a game then reinforces the negative belief. The vicious circle | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| all know on your path how tempting this game appears and how unsatisfactory and constricting it really | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| would entail giving up the victim and blame game. It would entail accepting part of the responsibility | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |