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| that a particular wish of yours has been granted. If the good you have received has its | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| a specific inner block. Were your wishes simply granted without your first eliminating the inner obstacles, that | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| their own. All this cannot be taken for granted, my friends, for no matter how much you | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| will not take your gifts and treasures for granted -- which is always a sign of spiritual | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| or through other human beings, and the answers granted seem to happen in a way so natural | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| spirit world. You must not take it for granted; you must train these inner senses by observation | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| or not depends on a person's spiritual development. Granted, there are many, many people living on earth | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| other duties or pleasures. You take it for granted that this is a necessary, self-evident part of | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| have just advised you, do not take for granted that, because of your outer good will and | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| people who at best take your help for granted, and at worst are against you. For a | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| the gratification of your pride will not be granted to you by the people around you. So | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| that this desire of yours should not be granted. I want to emphasize again that I am | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| and these are then adopted and those wishes granted, while others must be rejected. There is no | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| his or her best. Then the favor is granted to return home sooner, to begin something new | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| questions about it; they just take it for granted. Many others cannot understand prayer. They say -- | 36 PRAYER |
| cannot escape this work at a later time. Granted, the same purification is possible in the spirit | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| difficulties in your life which you take for granted, although this does not preclude your resentment and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| not aware of. You took the situation for granted. You did not know what was missing or | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| another supposed fact your subconscious often takes for granted. Your real self knows all this. But as | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| should love me instead of taking me for granted. In other words, their self-effacement is offered in | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| usually regarded as acceptable. You take it for granted and it never occurs to you that life | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| climate you cannot even name but take for granted. Then the danger is that an unconscious resolution | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you. For instance, you may take it for granted that someone meant to hurt or reject you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| success and receive approval. This image-claim will be granted. But the underlying claim, that approval is tantamount | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| that approval is tantamount to love, cannot be granted, because here lies the wrong conclusion. Striving for | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| claim for gaining love through success cannot be granted because approval and love are not the same | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| a matter of course. You take it for granted. You believe that it has to be so | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| real self causes one to take it for granted, thinking it will be there again just as | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| your daily life that you take it for granted. You have lost the ability to see the | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| frustrations. A child is apt to take for granted, and as a permanent condition, what it experiences | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| hopelessness about winning or obtaining fulfillment -- for granted, you will clearly understand why you are unfulfilled | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| desire for fulfillment is not enough. Taking for granted that you want it because it seems the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| -- is feared because disappointment is taken for granted. So the individual plays a game, acting as | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| overlook the fact that you often take for granted a general positive goal that is only secondary | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| to take the smooth functioning so much for granted that you are unaware of its mechanics. Once | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| other words, you take a negative assumption for granted. Once you see this, you are ready to | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| to take conditions and laws of life for granted prevents autonomy of self. This automatism is widespread | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| new approach. When you take any law for granted that is not a universal law of life | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| life's rules? Blindly taking limitations and laws for granted is always a matter of cowardice. Lack of | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| you no longer gloss over and take for granted those apparently unquestionable self-understood aspects of life. In | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| your automatic response is to take things for granted without questioning them; second, you run away from | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of all the things you still take for granted. You blindly accept as inevitable many laws and | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the extent you merely conform by taking for granted what others say, you believe in laws that | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| in a false spirit of inevitability, taking for granted what need not be. Each moment contains indescribable | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of your biological processes which you take for granted and the self-regulating nature of which you never | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to hurt, you will no longer take for granted that you will be rejected. Therefore you will | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is capable of utilizing the freedom creation has granted all beings. For example, when people shift the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| These words are only too often taken for granted and not much thought is given them. What | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| conduct serious investigation, when you take nothing for granted and approach everything in a new and fresh | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| on these three questions, without taking anything for granted. It is essential that you ask yourself and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| mean. These words may easily be taken for granted and glossed over. It is extremely important, my | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| cannot be known when you take it for granted that it simply does not exist; when you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| situation. See how you take so much for granted that you gloss over your most obvious attitudes | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the tenacity with which you take this for granted, you can ask, Does it really have to | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| have given myself until now by taking for granted that it cannot be different. On this conscious | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| have taken the experience of negative manifestation for granted. Perhaps you want a positive result, and at | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| creating. At first the inability is taken for granted and not even recognized as a problem. Then | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| longer gloss over them and take them for granted or deny their existence outright. You have to | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| the pathwork is glossed over and taken for granted without particular and exacting insight, the task is | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| much deeper way. Too much is taken for granted and glossed over by simply giving the reaction | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of your being, which you still take for granted and thus do not even notice as an | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| of your life, but you take it for granted. You have not yet brought it to bear | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| these unreal needs, which you had taken for granted as being real until now, will liberate your | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| humbly enough, they imagine the wish will be granted by this separated other entity. Even these primitive | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| many thoughts and automatic reactions are taken for granted and glossed over as their significant power is | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| The freedom to have different ideas can be granted only when you are both anchored in spiritual | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| conditioned beliefs and perceptions are being taken for granted as truths, the mind remains in a box | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| perpetual conflict that you unconsciously take conflicts for granted and know nothing else. You suffer from so | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Then you take this in-between, half-aware state for granted. I shall now try to explain as exactly | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| hold limited beliefs, instead of taking them for granted. The next step is to challenge them. This | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| meaning to it. For you take unthinkingly for granted that life can suddenly become non-life, that its | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| used to, that you take so much for granted that it never occurs to you to consider | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| this work, reincarnation is discussed and taken for granted. There are many theories about it. As you | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| is already a creation that is taken for granted, never challenged, never debated and therefore uncorrected. And | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| century you experienced a new influx from psychology. Granted that this knowledge has its limitations, it nevertheless | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| of different countries. It is universally taken for granted that opaqueness is sound diplomacy. In this area | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| is. For this is often so taken for granted that you cannot even perceive the pain and | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| their lives. You may now take this for granted, yet it was by no means always so | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |