| Abuses......................5 | |
| then believes that the world prevents self-realization and abuses and takes advantage of one's goodness. This is | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| knowledge of his or her inherent omnipotence and abuses it. The abuse occurs when the omnipotence is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| an injustice and dishonesty as the ruler who abuses his power. Wherever your talents lie, you contain | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| three basic systems, their divine meaning and their abuses -- inside of you and therefore inevitably outside | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| a human authority -- whether this authority really abuses power or you only imagine he or she | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Abusing.....................4 | |
| They either would have the wisdom of not abusing their power and thus living within the perfection | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the first to succumb to the temptation of abusing this power, the one who is sometimes referred | 21 THE FALL |
| not founded on truth. In essence this means abusing the creative faculties. What you really accomplish is | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| inner tyranny you have set up by constantly abusing your freedom to create, to choose, to direct | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Abusive.....................4 | |
| allow others to be deceitful, destructive, dishonest and abusive in their subterfuges and games. You cannot fear | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| those who have earned them are unfair and abusive. Now, even if authority is being abused, those | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| you cannot distinguish whether the authority is indeed abusive or whether you react like a child. If | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| clearly see that the human authority may be abusive, and you can then choose to pay the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Abyss.......................54 | |
| Be in peace. Be in God! 60. THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY Greetings, my | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| every human being. I will call this the abyss of illusion. There is an abyss in each | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| this the abyss of illusion. There is an abyss in each one of you. This abyss is | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| an abyss in each one of you. This abyss is utterly unreal, and yet it seems very | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to you that you have fallen into an abyss. You may never have translated these feelings into | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| certain incidents, you will become aware of the abyss of illusion in you. I ask you not | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| for it. Experience the truth of it! This abyss varies in depth and in width. Only by | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| adverse happens to you. As long as this abyss exists in your soul, it seems to you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| go. You seem to fall down into the abyss. The abyss can only disappear if you let | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| seem to fall down into the abyss. The abyss can only disappear if you let yourself drop | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| fear and anxiety was as illusory as this abyss. So I repeat: the abyss cannot disappear by | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| illusory as this abyss. So I repeat: the abyss cannot disappear by itself. It can only vanish | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| would not be so fearful. This is the abyss into which you should plunge so as to | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of it becomes a good part of the abyss. You seem to think that you will fall | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| world of Utopia appears to you as the abyss. Giving up Utopia seems to you the greatest | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| your spiritual muscles. You lean away from the abyss, losing valuable strength for nothing. To give up | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| can discover the illusion of this fear, this abyss and its phantom quality, is first to visualize | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| others. This fear is as illusory as the abyss. This fear can exist only because you deny | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| mistake. Making a mistake means falling into the abyss. Here again you can test the validity of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| world of Utopia as well as the fearsome abyss of illusion therefore depend upon whether or not | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| particular respect you have freed yourself of the abyss of illusion and the world of Utopia. But | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| world of Utopia and therefore struggle against the abyss of illusion. Your whole life must change in | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| hand, you need not have completely dissolved the abyss in order to be liberated to a large | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| is so great, it is often the real abyss that you shy away from. It is responsible | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| your various faults. Yet to step into this abyss will soon prove liberating, refreshing and exhilarating, after | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| increase proportionately as you no longer dread the abyss of not being loved in return -- or | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| convince yourself that not receiving it is no abyss, you will be able to give up the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because he or she is liberated from the abyss of illusion that not being loved spells terror | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and relating it to the lecture on The Abyss of Illusion, you say, You are the master | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| and unhappiness. Again in the lecture on The Abyss of Illusion, you state that this basic spiritual | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| self-responsibility. It seems to me, in contemplating the Abyss of Illusion and what you have been saying | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| or death. Not to get it represents the abyss; not to get it spells annihilation for you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| in you believes that you will avoid the abyss of unhappiness by holding on to this current | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| You have to look into the very difficult abyss of illusion, as long as it is still | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| illusion, as long as it is still an abyss for you. COMMENT: I think it has to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to avoid the unpleasantness of facing the illusory abyss, humanity clings to such words as there is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the mature attitude that unfulfillment is not an abyss. Only with this attitude can you then find | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| feel as though you were falling into an abyss. You will feel yourself defenseless, while before your | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| that the absence of pleasure is not an abyss of darkness to shrink from, fear will no | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| that you have to release yourself into an abyss of danger, pain, and hardship. This is why | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| of losing. It is always first an apparent abyss into which you trustingly throw yourself, only to | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Many years ago in a lecture called The Abyss of Illusion I said that the path of | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| fall into what appears to be a bottomless abyss. Falling into it threatens to annihilate the entity | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| he or she crouches in front of this abyss, holding on and not daring to jump. The | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| applies to letting yourself fall into the apparent abyss of your blocked feelings -- painful, frightening feelings | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| to go on avoiding the jump into the abyss and knowing that you do so and why | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the climate you need to go into the abyss of fright, loneliness, helplessness, pain, and the anger | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| that what appears first as a black, frightening abyss turns out to be a tunnel at whose | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| can experience this. It is never a bottomless abyss, for the true nature of life is not | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| on the edge before going into the apparent abyss of commitment to test the truth. Staying with | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| overcome your resistance and go into the apparent abyss of surrender, giving up narrow selfwill. This self-perpetuating | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| keep the possibility open that there is no abyss. There are only tunnels, many tunnels, to go | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| which you seem to hang isolated over an abyss without an all-loving Creator and Creative Principle that | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| as well, do you jump into the apparent abyss of opening your mind, and only then can | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Abysses.....................3 | |
| flexibility is unsafe is one of the great abysses of illusion. As you proceed in this work | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Does it lead to bleak hopelessness, to sustained abysses where no light seems to dawn? It can | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the good. This is truly one of the abysses of illusion. Without assurances of the outcome you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Accelerate..................9 | |
| soul of a child, the same conditions that accelerate conflicts in another child will not create any | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the doors, to show the way, to help accelerate development for all, by an act of supreme | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and trying to feel these words, you may accelerate the transition. Recognizing your commonality with all others | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| change. There is no magic formula. You can accelerate the automatic growth process by cultivating certain thoughts | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| use the key I give you, you can accelerate the process of development. False control strengthens the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| Therefore changing is a movement that seems to accelerate the process of dying. Staying immobile upholds the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| cessation of the manifest level. It can only accelerate the will of the animating consciousness to withdraw | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| when it needs such help so as to accelerate the process. When you perceive life and death | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| love and unity. Your understanding of this will accelerate the conciliations on the level of sequential time | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |