| Greedily....................8 | |
| comes to you when you receive selfishly and greedily. I realize that these are old truths you | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| great temptation to them and therefore they hunt greedily for it. They look for one subject after | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| with eros, or perhaps because the soul has greedily abused the beauty of the erotic force without | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| many use this feeling of happiness carelessly and greedily, never passing the threshold into true love. True | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| reaches out, not in a relaxed way, but greedily, compulsively. These soul movements are very subtle. Only | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| bliss of being in the life force. You greedily demand happiness in order to have your way | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| it to others, becomes a real alternative to greedily insisting on receiving. All these increased abilities will | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| abode. You are in the impossible position of greedily holding on to what was. You insist on | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Greedy......................37 | |
| greed. On this earth sphere most people are greedy, not necessarily in the material sense, but emotionally | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| material sense, but emotionally. And when I say greedy, I mean you want to amass advantages without | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| explain away the counter-currents of the fearful or greedy soul with good motives. There is a common | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| dishonest in its own way: one because the greedy child within you wants to grab, the other | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| its distorted form as false sacrifice, possessive domineering, greedy craving, and dependency. Let us take another quality | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| mutuality. When the need to receive is a greedy force that is intrinsically selfish, then one can | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| The two are opposites, because gluttony is a greedy reaching out, coming from a frustrated need, while | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| does it not work? Are there always selfish, greedy, immature currents in the human soul? But then | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| wanted is as insensitive, as egocentric, and as greedy as loving too little. You do not understand | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| would then establish a human relationship, whereas your greedy egocentric giving destroys it. Let the other person | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| a result. As long as you are inwardly greedy and selfish and do not even know it | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| will find that this voice belongs to a greedy child that wants to receive everything but give | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| If a person could clearly see the childish, greedy selfishness and express it -- Since I am | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| -- the conflict would cease, even before the greedy selfishness entirely disappeared. The mere fact of being | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| directly by the following chain-reaction: facing the selfish, greedy child within you brings liberation, dignity, and strength | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| could not have it. You need not be greedy, for if you are in truth and in | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and relationship, but you may feel selfish and greedy if your consciousness also expresses the wish for | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| brain, the difference between the tight, anxious, doubtful, greedy pseudo-yes-current and the relaxed, calm inner knowledge of | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| government does not mean self will. When the greedy, childish self will is given up, self-government and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| your happiness? Is this not another contradiction? The greedy child wants happiness, too. The great power of | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| force. Your attitude is either that of a greedy, self-willed child who demands the fulfillment of all | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the misunderstood spirituality is a product of the greedy, fearful, weak, dependent child. The less the person | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| between these two extremes: either to remain the greedy, selfish child, demanding to receive exclusively and not | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| do not need to be selfish, cruel and greedy. At that point, there is no false alternative | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| experiences, makes you arrogant and isolated, cruel and greedy, selfish and life-denying. It makes you untruthful on | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| your original pain in this life leads to greedy, insatiable demands, such as to be spared all | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| theirs and you simply wish to be a greedy, demanding, and unreasonable child. On the other hand | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| that the longing per se stems from immature, greedy, or neurotic attitudes? No, my friends, it does | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| message of longing is misinterpreted by the negative, greedy, ungiving and demanding personality, confusion sets in. The | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| determines either creative receptivity and positive desire or greedy, distorted desire from a fearful rejection of life's | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| career? Or what connection could exist between a greedy and pushy attitude and, say, sexual dissatisfaction? Or | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Earth's lower self is not only negative, selfish, greedy, and dishonest; it is also ignorant with a | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| which you thought were the expectations of the greedy little child turn out to be the will | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| which you nevertheless refuse to leave behind. The greedy thought is: If I leave behind this thing | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| be confused with greed. It is not a greedy, impatient attitude I advocate here. It is rather | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| live in and that they who are less greedy are victimized by the greedy. Both extremes can | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| who are less greedy are victimized by the greedy. Both extremes can abuse this system. The socialistically-minded | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Grew........................4 | |
| opportunism and vanity of your little ego. You grew into a more developed state and now feel | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY This lecture grew out of an answer to the following question | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the personal reactions of a Christian child who grew up with this confused perception and who deals | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the more hatred and discrimination, separation and enmity grew in the consciousness of many individual Jews, thereby | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Grey........................3 | |
| life: the sea can be stormy, the sky grey, and then again the sun will shine and | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| of happiness, but prefers to exist in a grey, solitary world that seems risk-free to the blind | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| world. They live in a flat, shallow and grey world and nothing is really alive to them | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Grief.......................10 | |
| the heaviness may come also, for instance, from grief? ANSWER: That is possible. But the question is | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| possible. But the question is, what kind of grief? Healthy sorrow does not feel like a heavy | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| you; I could almost say that despite the grief something quite wonderful takes place deep inside. It | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| decision in this way will ever come to grief because of it! Nor will they ever have | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| There are few people who have not experienced grief and disappointment because they felt betrayed. They have | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| momentary impact of a tragedy with all its grief and relative importance, but simultaneously will perceive its | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| avoid the shame and exposure, the failure and grief by sabotaging the success at the outset with | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| out more about yourself. QUESTION: When you suffer grief, when you are separated from someone and you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| a separation, then there must be an unhealthy grief, perhaps in addition to healthy grief. But if | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| an unhealthy grief, perhaps in addition to healthy grief. But if the loss is felt as painful | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Grip........................17 | |
| a vague feeling of sadness and longing can grip them at times; it is as if their | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| happiness. When personal success or failure does not grip you inside -- and both can do that | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| does not, you are lost and in the grip of forces within you that you cannot control | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| enjoy. As long as you are in the grip of your ego with its fears and anxieties | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| reins too tightly, often loses his or her grip on life's reins altogether. The overemotional person completely | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| at its leash. Time holds you in its grip and you feel imprisoned in a fragment of | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| of an objective, realistic attitude releases the tight grip of control that stands in the way of | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| that you feel even more helpless in the grip of your own personality. Even though such thoughts | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the self -- believing oneself helpless in the grip of one's feelings, attitudes, and even thoughts or | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| underlying this fear; you must relinquish your tight grip on certain attitudes that are obviously destructive but | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| causing you to withhold yourself in a tight grip on your ego. The innate urge to let | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the very act of seeing yourself in the grip of it. As this goes on for a | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| behind the false roles of pretense, beyond the grip of destructiveness. Underneath your outer deadness a bubbling | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| from outside yourself. Therefore you will have a grip on it and on life, and you will | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| you will have no fear of losing your grip. The control is yours, regardless of how others | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| begins to dawn on you how strong a grip this devastating attitude has on you. In spite | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| project it outward, the more you lose your grip on truth and reality and the more you | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |