| the sake of giving -- which is always giving for God's sake -- then you will experience | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| influence merge with your love, truth, goodwill and giving to the universe. The result is a mutuality | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| to say a few words about receiving and giving. You do know by now -- for we | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| are beginning to see it increasingly -- that giving and receiving are one. But, again, this knowledge | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| -- which is the sense of worthlessness. And giving your love is equally dependent on that, for | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| only taking love there is the act of giving it out. Not being willing to accept what | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| crass form of ungivingness. Taking is already a giving, if it comes from sincerity rather than from | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| see constantly that in the taking is the giving and in the giving is the taking, the | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| the taking is the giving and in the giving is the taking, the receiving. Even when the | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| more receiving and less able to give, or giving through your sincere receiving. That is all right | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| shall become stronger in the other kind of giving too -- where you give actively from your | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| divine will. It will become an endless flow. Giving and receiving will no longer be differentiated, for | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| creation of the many words of truth, strength, giving, commitment, faith, goodwill and action -- in short | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| an extreme position of punitive self- righteousness. Expanding, giving, joyful and vigorous expressions of divine reality surge | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| approach it in this way. The humility of giving up perfectionism and the honesty of paying the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| do not see the other, and you fear giving up one for the other. Fear of death | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| possible before. They are a direct result of giving up the false version of perfection, immortality, omnipotence | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| manifestation of expansion the outgoing movement is reaching, giving, making yourself available for further beautiful states of | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| It means penetrating into new realms of being, giving forth from the inner riches, and eliminating walls | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| of the words I won't to life, to giving, to changing, to taking responsibility for myself as | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| to going into trance. She had hesitated before giving this lecture, fearing that her laryngitis would make | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| made a total commitment to life and self, giving your best to both, which are one. When | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| degree you wish to squander yourself into life, giving as generously of your inner riches to this | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| constantly about the importance of opening up, of giving up your defenses, your brittle hardness with which | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| taking it away from you, or for not giving you the prerogatives of leadership. You make no | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| all the privileges without demanding from you love, giving, a sense of responsibility, fairness, integrity, and so | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| word, has to want to give unselfishly. Unselfish giving must exist truly in your smallest acts. It | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| is demanded of you, it cannot be called giving. In another sense true giving is demanded of | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| cannot be called giving. In another sense true giving is demanded of you, for if you want | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and there are many -- the price is giving. The laws of life and creation always demand | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| little back doors open. That is no longer giving, and therefore it leaves others and you empty | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| I get from it? you negate that your giving was ever genuine in the first place. Thus | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| place. Thus you cunningly reinforce your resistance to giving. Giving is a very simple act which includes | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Thus you cunningly reinforce your resistance to giving. Giving is a very simple act which includes also | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and the intentionality behind the act. In true giving, you state: I want to be an instrument | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| jealousy can no longer exist. The other person's giving and values can never detract from your own | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| will know this and experience it. If your giving is faked, neither anyone else's giving, nor life's | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| If your giving is faked, neither anyone else's giving, nor life's abundance can be received by you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you. At the same time, other people's true giving, and the appreciation, the abundance in material and | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| of where you are in regard to true giving. True giving is an act of love, of | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you are in regard to true giving. True giving is an act of love, of course. And | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| sense is built on the love of true giving and on the true giving of love. Nothing | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| love of true giving and on the true giving of love. Nothing can go wrong when that | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| of this painful state by pressuring life into giving you the fulfillment of the desire by eliminating | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| meaning of this meeting, or linking. A mutual giving and exchanging and learning can become an ongoing | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| come. You will find the right balance between giving, reaching out and moving, between spontaneity and cautiousness | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| look into your lower self? Does self-love mean giving free rein to the aspirations of your lower | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| on to what was. You insist on not giving up anything of the old familiar environment, and | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| ways you may also be a loving and giving person, but if the part of you that | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| open your inner hands and heart, and trust. Giving up is a form of giving. You need | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| and trust. Giving up is a form of giving. You need to let go of this in | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| truth that, as a result of your total giving and commitment to your path, to the movement | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| spirit of total devotion, of total commitment to giving all of you to life, you will find | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| can come. You can move joyfully and trustingly. Giving with your heart, hands, mind and being to | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| that is around you, you will know that giving is the road to receiving. It becomes one | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| one and the same. Since letting go is giving, movement is a substantial part of love and | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| desire to exert. The often necessary and voluntary giving up of an immediate gratification is totally rejected | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| by everything a human being is capable of giving. If you follow that discipline within yourself, then | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| lazy and cheat, making their excuses valid by giving seeming justification to their argument that it is | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| and coordinate it with the meaning I am giving to it in this lecture. These short periods | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| must be twofold: personal purification and transformation and giving over one's talents, energies, and assets to the | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| the compulsion to sabotage fulfillment come from not giving to God. When you give to God, you | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| inability to receive it makes it appear unattainable. Giving to God means to give over to the | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| will, and to dedicate your life to this. Giving to God means activity, and at times even | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| become dedication to God's will and plan, your giving over in all things and putting God first | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| somewhere within you, you are holding out on giving over to God's will for you and to | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| total surrender to God. A further consequence of giving over to God will be a need to | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the relationship between you will become a mutual giving and receiving. If your perception is distorted and | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and transformed unless you heal yourself spiritually by giving over all of yourself, in all areas of | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| paradoxical. Deep down you always feared that by giving over to God you would lose yourself. But | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| replace childish and destructive rebellion and denial. Graceful giving in, yielding, following, accepting -- even when your | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| after all the situation requires not fighting but giving in, that it is fair, right, necessary, justified | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| effect, of holding back from trusting God and giving over to Him. You may have done so | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| exists as the constant movement toward renewing and giving new life to the eternal truths and laws | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| to the previous levels. I have started by giving you an overview of spiritual reality in the | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| To let go of the defense would entail giving up the victim and blame game. It would | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| immense strength, autonomy and freedom that lie in giving over totally to God while working constantly on | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| you. Jesus Christ is present here, warming you, giving you courage and love, truth and hope that | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| or when good deeds and genuine love and giving seem to elicit undeserved negative effects, or at | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| and its laws so that you will risk giving. And this is indeed an important lever that | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| truly receive. You have heard the law of giving and receiving discussed many times. It is such | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| believes this distortion. What does the law of giving and receiving mean in reality? Every human being | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| capacity and yearning to give. Since in reality giving and receiving are one and the same flow | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| universal life and movement, the total process of giving and receiving is stopped, so that the grace | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| or materially. You are holding in rather than giving out. Hence you separate yourself from the riches | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| the benign circle can be established by risking giving out, in the conscious expectation that abundance will | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| and deprivation may be illusory. As you start giving to God in trust and with love, you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Words can never describe this magnificence. By risking giving out you enter into a benign circle; you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you capable of receiving. It is then that giving and receiving become one. So the first step | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| So the first step must be to risk giving out. Consider that the fear that makes you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| before you are convinced that your fear of giving out is unwarranted, you have already begun to | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| healthy policy. You are constantly running on deficit, giving out in a distorted way that has nothing | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| way that has nothing to do with genuine giving. This is pretended giving, in more than one | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| to do with genuine giving. This is pretended giving, in more than one way. For example, you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you do not deserve. These types of lower-self giving are manifestations of building on deficit. False ways | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| manifestations of building on deficit. False ways of giving may temporarily work on the surface, but as | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| by paying the necessary price, which may be giving their best to their work. Thus, they cannot | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| function healthily with a constant balanced flow of giving and receiving, never exhausting the reserves because all | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| spiritual law works on the most practical levels. Giving and receiving can exist when countries share their | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you may have to pitch in with your giving, as some have done from the very beginning | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| that none have come to deprivation from their giving; quite the contrary, more abundance has accrued for | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| -- needs to go through a period of giving without much recompense. If this step is skipped | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| you depend on ours. We depend on your giving yourselves to the Creator, as you depend on | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| to the Creator, as you depend on our giving to Him. Let this beautiful mutual work always | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| There are three fundamental reasons for resistance to giving up secrets: (1) The fear that your lower | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| a particular aspect of this transformation of consciousness, giving special emphasis to what was previously discussed only | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| to those whom you love. This means trusting, giving them the benefit of the doubt, being willing | 254 SURRENDER |
| Surrender is such a movement of fullness, of giving over, of letting go, that enrichment must follow | 254 SURRENDER |
| surrender. In such a case, surrender becomes a giving away of autonomy. This is why those who | 254 SURRENDER |
| against all yielding. They vaguely sense that the giving away of self can only occur when the | 254 SURRENDER |
| stronger and healthier through the very act of giving itself away. So, my friends, when you find | 254 SURRENDER |
| part of yourselves from this movement of completely giving over. There always remains a little corner of | 254 SURRENDER |
| of you in your desire for a total giving over to the Creator. You also need to | 254 SURRENDER |
| lecture: surrendering and standing firm, yielding and self-assertion, giving in and fighting for the good cause of | 254 SURRENDER |
| This requires intention, thought, practice, self-observation. It means giving up the state of being only half awake | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| this melding. On the one hand, you fear giving up what you call your individuality. You believe | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| all the comfort only He is capable of giving, you will never doubt again, although you may | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |