| Gratifications..............6 | |
| all the difference in the world. Even small gratifications of this sort -- let us say a | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and contains the inability to give up certain gratifications. This then causes the neurotic symptoms of helplessness | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| who have slighted you. Even in these ego gratifications, however, the original facets of true value are | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| obstructions to real happiness rather than dream about gratifications. If you use the material in this lecture | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| it as easy as possible and get free gratifications that are not earned by honesty and by | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| your lower self and gives you some lower-self gratifications for a while, so that higher pleasures can | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Gratified...................28 | |
| happiness means for them that certain wishes are gratified. Yet, even if these wishes came true these | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| there automatically that this self-will will not be gratified, or that your pride may be hurt. If | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| have to fear that it would not be gratified. So you can see the connection. These subtle | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| the desires of your self-will will not be gratified. Thus, coupled with self-will you find fear. For | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the first place your vanity is not being gratified. Because humility is lacking, the unconscious emotions claim | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| self- will; your own will has to be gratified, or else you become resentful. In order to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| yourself, But my will must not always be gratified. I have to accept standing back, if need | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| constant fear that this desire will not be gratified. As soon as you have given up self-will | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| this strategy seems to work, you are not gratified by the love bestowed upon you. Think about | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| that your pride and self-will would not be gratified. No inferiority complex would exist if this were | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| exclusive love the child craves can never be gratified. Furthermore, whenever the child is prohibited from having | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| circle. The need for love that cannot be gratified causes hatred and hostility toward the very people | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| all your needs in receiving love could be gratified while you invest only a minimum of emotion | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| emotion. Even then your need could never be gratified. This is because of the simple reason that | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the person desires. When this wish cannot be gratified -- and it never can -- the frustration | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| imagine situations in which you see this wish gratified. You view every favorable sign in the context | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to be loved totally, to have every wish gratified instantly, and to be loved in spite of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| are aware that this need may not be gratified. In your fear of rejection and defeat such | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| aims. When your false aims and values are gratified you are bound to be left feeling empty | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| goal of your idealized self was actually partly gratified in this pleasant situation. This may very well | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because the false value and desire has been gratified. Outwardly you may be quite content, but the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| therefore also outer, activities. False needs, even if gratified occasionally, leave you empty and dissatisfied. In this | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| my emotions are strong enough, I will be gratified. Or, if you happen to be a more | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| of slighted and you experience satisfaction, revenge and gratified pride. Thus you enjoy living in a way | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| comparatively unimportant event. That you are joyful and gratified about the event as such does not change | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| now. Let us now examine a favorable emotion. Gratified vanity, greed, or pride may produce a pleasant | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| my friends. At the moment, you may be gratified and appeased and feel safe. But how long | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| you receive praise and admiration because you feel gratified at the moment. You are unaware of the | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Gratify.....................7 | |
| the answer is that it is impossible to gratify such excessive expectations on this earth given the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| submissive. This is how people will try to gratify their needs for safety, love, and unconditional approval | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| a destructive form. You then, unconsciously, try to gratify their insistent claims in a manner that cannot | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| your own best interests as you try to gratify them. Therefore your attempts produce experiences that starve | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Let us suppose you discover a need to gratify your vanity. You know perfectly well this is | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| relinquishing the need for harmony in order to gratify the other needs, everything is fine. Only you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| even more demanding and the parents could not gratify these demands. I think the child was ashamed | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| Gratifying..................5 | |
| To seek God is the most glorious and gratifying of all activities. To find God is perforce | 36 PRAYER |
| and realizable concept. This will be infinitely more gratifying. Until you have experienced the infant in you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| You want to repay all women for not gratifying your need. You secretly feel an impulse to | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pleasure. Negative pleasure is always more geared to gratifying ego goals than fulfilling the real and legitimate | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| merely by impulse and desire. What was immediately gratifying seemed good, and no consideration could be given | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Gratitude...................13 | |
| the need to give God something back in gratitude. At first, it may seem as if a | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| thin. The slightest deviation from the feeling of gratitude and rejoicing in the life-force may bring the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the difference and distinction of obligation as against gratitude? I mean that apart from the element of | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| from the element of freedom and compulsion. ANSWER: Gratitude has nothing to do with obligation. Now I | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| your obligation. It has nothing to do with gratitude on either side. QUESTIONER: I don't mean it | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| all friends, both present and absent. Universal, divine gratitude truly exists, my friends. May all of you | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| fills you with indescribable joy, peace, security and gratitude for what exists. You must earn this awareness | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| but that fills you with awe, wonder, and gratitude. You begin to perceive connections of interactions between | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| experience fulfillment as well as a sense of gratitude toward the mate. Thus two equals help each | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| ones, I bless you once again. Love and gratitude of the spiritual universe is coming forth to | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| out of the trance. We all expressed our gratitude, and told her that throughout the lecture we | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| benefit. QUESTION: I accept what you say in gratitude. Have you any suggestions of people who could | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| understanding will come from there. Compassion and love, gratitude for the beauty of creation, appreciation of and | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Gratuitously................8 | |
| against the world that does not offer gratification gratuitously. Only your own wholehearted determination can induce you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| up for it all and give to you gratuitously, leaving you as a recipient, leaving you out | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| fought for. It does not come easily, nor gratuitously. Remaining in the isolated ego state may appear | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| or anything outside you. That comes later -- gratuitously, as it were. To concentrate on that would | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this or that desirable fulfillment will magically and gratuitously come your way without any investment in life | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| someone will come along and give you fulfillment gratuitously, without any effort on your part, without your | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| ever possible. But this awareness cannot be given gratuitously. Each entity must develop into it through struggle | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| capable. Bliss, ecstasy, pleasure supreme can never exist gratuitously, can never be cheaply snatched. They cannot be | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Graver......................6 | |
| a former life caused you to commit a graver action, one that you would not longer be | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| reasoning capacity! The more successful you are, the graver is the danger that you are hiding your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| that you have some faults which are infinitely graver than others, and yet you do not have | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| time ago, often the imagined guilt is actually graver than the real hidden guilt. But just because | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life. ANSWER: The outer, physical deformity is no graver than the soul deformities all human beings have | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on and on. The original misconception leads to graver error, to compounded misunderstanding, to further alienation from | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| Gravest.....................5 | |
| useless to try. And that is where your gravest mistake lies. My dear friends, it is important | 38 IMAGES |
| it. Needless to say, these doubts are the gravest hindrance to the functioning of your inner willpower | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the damage you do to yourself has the gravest consequences. Chances are that those people actually feel | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| no specific, finite goal. The person with the gravest afflictions and distortions who says, I will go | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| shut out the truth, and thereby commit the gravest of all violations. Your pretenses are so much | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |