| Generously..................9 | |
| of those who is constantly ready to give, generously, but perhaps too generously, because out of your | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| constantly ready to give, generously, but perhaps too generously, because out of your need, and perhaps also | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| be broken only when one wants to contribute generously to life. Then, and then only, will a | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| is to give abundantly -- as abundantly and generously as all of nature does! This applies on | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| you -- that you do not want to generously risk giving of yourself on the deepest possible | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| package of ungiving. All feelings will stream forth generously and fearlessly. More of life's gifts come to | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| true that human beings must squander themselves as generously as life squanders itself on all created beings | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| correlation is exact: to the degree you offer generously and trustingly the best you have to give | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| wish to squander yourself into life, giving as generously of your inner riches to this whole process | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Genes.......................12 | |
| next month. And then, according to the so-called genes of the parents, which of course have been | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the human being to be incarnated. The parental genes are made to correspond to and affect the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| and generalizations here. There are none. So the genes are worked on in such a way that | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| way that the shell is prepared properly. Some genes will therefore have an influence; some will not | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| influence; some will not. In one instance the genes of the mother have a greater influence, in | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| another those of the father. In one instance genes of the parents do not work at all | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| not work at all, in another case, the genes of a grandparent, or even a great aunt | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| I explained it already in connection with the genes. The genes work in such a way that | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| it already in connection with the genes. The genes work in such a way that certain physical | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| reunite themselves into new combinations, they then create genes and these genes within the human structure change | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| new combinations, they then create genes and these genes within the human structure change as the consciousness | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| human structure change as the consciousness changes. The genes are not the same today as they will | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Genesis.....................6 | |
| Bearing in mind that Adam and Eve in Genesis stem from the masculine and feminine, that is | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I would like to ask a question about Genesis. In the Garden of Eden, the two trees | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of the cosmogonic myths in the Book of Genesis. There are many myths in Genesis, but there | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Book of Genesis. There are many myths in Genesis, but there is one in particular that I | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of confusion of tongues. I quote now from Genesis XI/1-9: 1: Originally the whole earth was of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rather significant that the first seven words of Genesis, in Hebrew, contain the words heaven and earth | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Genital.....................1 | |
| sexuality, I mean something that goes beyond limited genital pleasure. It comprises the whole extending of personal | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Genitalia...................1 | |
| projections, or concentration points, in the pelvis and genitalia. The next center is in the back. Its | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Genitals....................2 | |
| meditation, I have the sensation as though my genitals were lifted off me. I feel a new | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| be endangered, particularly by the loss of your genitals. This misconception occurs frequently, which does not alter | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| Genius......................9 | |
| would apply to a person who is a genius but who is born...let us say, for | 18 FREE WILL |
| It applies to anyone, my dear. If a genius invents something great and uses it for a | 18 FREE WILL |
| state of divinity. You cannot be a universal genius. Limitations on a broader scale have nothing to | 38 IMAGES |
| specific greatness to come forth. Everyone is a genius, for everyone is God. For the little ego | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| your own ultimate unique beauty, greatness -- your genius -- is your fear of still existing evil | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| one can claim his or her birthright and genius, and make a unique contribution to life, who | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| inner fulfillment, joy, wholeness, security, and the intrinsic genius to add to creation who is not dedicated | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| a creation. It requires the most brilliant creative genius to set in motion the energy systems, the | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| as a great artist, no matter how much genius you have, unless you learn the craft and | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Geniuses....................4 | |
| scientists, artists -- in other words the great geniuses of history -- never manifest through a medium | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| very carefully. Further, not all of the great geniuses are in their spiritual development as far advanced | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| general statement can be made. Some of these geniuses are reincarnated; some of them live in the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| Bhagavad Gita it was asked why certain spiritual geniuses, like Ramakrishna and others, were actually very sick | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Gentle......................10 | |
| a human being, for instance. That a nice gentle horse becomes the lowest type of human being | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| but relaxing into pleasure through the power of gentle letting go. My words will sound obscure or | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| use this information consciously and deliberately. Such a gentle letting go applies to anything, on all levels | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| a satisfactory conclusion. The real hurt is a gentle, soft experience, never unbearable, always leaving the essence | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to honestly register and endure your feelings. The gentle hurt first appears more difficult to bear than | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of saying no to the real, much more gentle hurt. No destructiveness will arise when the soft | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| No destructiveness will arise when the soft and gentle original hurt is accepted. Out of it soft | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| hurt is accepted. Out of it soft and gentle good feelings will arise, swelling stronger and rooting | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Unobstructed energy flows smoothly and harmoniously, like a gentle river. When resistance stops the movement of the | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| fear of the full power current is acceptance; gentle training is needed so that the personality can | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Gentleness..................4 | |
| do not need to fear, and a new gentleness and softness that does not need hostility or | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| the weak, cowardly person is associated with mildness, gentleness, goodness. Nothing could be further from the truth | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| another, for example, your silence is not goodness, gentleness, peacefulness. Far from it. In a sense it | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| man combines his heart feelings, his softness, his gentleness with his strength and abilities, not like the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Gently......................5 | |
| a part of the cosmic life force which gently guides to fruition and which wants to envelop | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| a mind. Let your mind be passive and gently, gently let your feeling come up -- whatever | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| mind. Let your mind be passive and gently, gently let your feeling come up -- whatever it | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| remain open and vulnerable, experiencing the pain softly, gently, without inner fight, and fully knowing why you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| The positive, involuntary process that is like a gently rolling sea with an immense and benign energy | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Genuine.....................249 | |
| ego, and that must block the stream of genuine love, having a contrary direction. The blocking goes | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| to give. It is just that, in ignorance, genuine feelings are channeled through the sick lower self | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of another as love is being shared. Yet genuine, healthy love is indivisible; it never diminishes. The | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| Who always loves more, never less. How can genuine, healthy love be attained? Not by trying to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| has made the first step toward attaining true, genuine love, and thus also toward lifting the feelings | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| feelings. When you love in a healthy and genuine way, you never compromise your dignity. You may | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the difference. Those who can love in a genuine way without being afraid that their little pride | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| importance to the fulfillment of your own wishes. Genuine love is healthy, and as such free from | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| blind. You can neither see yourself nor others. Genuine love is not blind, for it can come | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| -- have to be experienced personally to become genuine inner knowledge and so be applied in a | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| so you often assume guilt that is not genuine. It is as if you said, See, I | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| one's mind to be truly motivated by a genuine desire. Consider this an occasion to test yourself | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| inclined, you know how to determine a good, genuine color or an unreal, sweetly artificial coloring. You | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| you tend to, for only what is truly genuine will have an effect: of that you can | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| who are open in many respects, who are genuine truth-seekers, and yet they are blind in one | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| in some cases the communication may not be genuine does not mean that it is always so | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| unable to discriminate between the fake and the genuine goodness in the human personality, namely the higher | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| it to some degree -- the only way genuine desirelessness can be attained is by facing the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| relationships of long standing, is the coexistence of genuine love with sex, but without eros. Although love | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you feel that their behavior is not quite genuine. Inwardly they are hiding many reactions that are | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| your former motives were compulsive and not entirely genuine, there is the danger that you will fall | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| covered by contrary outer conduct that is not genuine. It then becomes difficult to detect by others | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| so deep that the wish to die is genuine. The child desires to die most often in | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| question? He wants to know whether it is genuine, whether it is a real Logos Jesu, or | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an entirely different manner. If you are not genuine or if you act out of a level | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| automatically in kind. If you are spontaneous and genuine, you will find such immediate response in the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and superimpose a compulsive unselfishness that is not genuine. Out of the superimposition stems the unconscious concept | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| a person who is ready to offer you genuine love and affection or friendship or help in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| superimposed layer, covering an original wish, is never genuine. Even if you succeed temporarily in getting what | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| understanding. You will see that people who emanate genuine warmth, who are outgoing and whose love can | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| be diminished considerably. However, the capacity for tendering genuine mature love is rare. Since children so seldom | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| inwardly children keenly feel the difference between mature, genuine love and the immature, over-demonstrative variety offered instead | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you with affection or pseudo-affection, yet lacked in genuine warmth, or if you had a parent who | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| in affection and love that is real and genuine. But you also seek in your partner aspects | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| for love. Needless to say, this is neither genuine nor healthy, for it is a wrong extreme | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| someone you love is really faithful to you? Genuine, mature love is loving without asking. Is it | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| giving and loving. You will not substitute the genuine you with a slightly false one. It takes | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| always reacts this way, and when this occurs, genuine self-confidence is automatically established. For it is only | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| sacrifice. This is meant in the healthy and genuine way, in the way I explained in the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only positive but also negative emotions on your genuine feelings. You produce artificial feelings because you are | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| trends, desires and motivations. Instead you will assume genuine attitudes, desires and motivations. These words will make | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the exact opposite effect. It paralyzes all the genuine attributes that are necessary for fulfillment. COMMENT: May | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of real conviction, nor out of a deep, genuine insight, but because they are afraid. Thus, the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| give you the very strength to build a genuine faith that is also a conviction and a | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the way it is done. If it is genuine and healthy, the process I have described has | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| ceases to be, but this happens in a genuine way only after it has been worked through | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| death. Some people believe they have risen to genuine acceptance, when in reality they simply reject pain | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the truth. In truth and reality, healthy and genuine self-confidence is peace of mind. It is security | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| But this artificial squeezing-into-something-you-are-not process can never attain genuine self-improvement, self-purification and growth, because you started building | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to experience the difference in feeling between the genuine desire to gradually work toward growth, and the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| know many other aspects and differences between the genuine and the ungenuine self. And you will also | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| goals, and a desire to be good. The genuine desire to better oneself leads one to accept | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| pleasure supreme. The stronger its presence, the more genuine self- confidence fades away. Since you cannot live | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you originally did. It is therefore obvious that genuine self-confidence can be established only when you remove | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| imperfection, a helplessness, a submissiveness that are not genuine. They use these fake weaknesses as a weapon | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| distorts and destroys that which could really be genuine. In the second category is the seeker for | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to furnish you with your missing self- respect. Genuine, not self-centered love will then no longer interfere | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is the right feeling, provided both feelings are genuine. Of course, it may be that the first | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| that the other set of feelings will become genuine and dominant. Often, if goodwill is superimposed, it | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |