| Growth-bringing.............2 | |
| what makes you really happy must be constructive, growth-bringing, and must make you more connected with cosmic | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the other end. Introspection can be productive and growth-bringing or self-centered and separating. Its opposite, concern for | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| Growth-producing............4 | |
| or not it is constructive, productive, life-affirming and growth-producing for all concerned -- and this, after all | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| friends. The most challenging, beautiful, spiritually important and growth-producing kind of relationship is the one between man | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| not be covered up. It is a beautiful, growth-producing struggle. I can only hint at the difference | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| the fulfillment of the desire. A relaxed and growth-producing attitude would let you off the hook and | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Grudge......................2 | |
| possess this trait, you should not bear a grudge because your needs were unfulfilled; instead, realize clearly | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| other person that make the holding of a grudge meaningless; it sees no shame or humiliation in | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| Guard.......................49 | |
| some disadvantages, will never be mistreated, provided they guard against betraying their own integrity out of fear | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the beginning it will require considerable effort to guard against your lower self that tries to stifle | 21 THE FALL |
| is affected by it constantly? You can only guard yourself against this fear emanation of others and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| responsible I am for changing myself. If I guard myself against knowing, I may stay as I | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| I shall speak about a danger you must guard against. It is the hazard of getting off | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| so concerned to have the proper attitude to guard against failure or disappointment, it is an indication | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Once the discipline is learned, one has to guard against the routine of prayer which makes it | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a watcher of your thoughts. You will stand guard, so to speak, at the threshold of your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| slight, hurt, or disappointment is a tragedy to guard against. The solution of this problem demands therefore | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself as you are not thinking. Be on guard for what thoughts may come. This is one | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| You can almost feel yourself standing poised on guard at a sort of threshold. If you succeed | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| every time you feel you cannot stand on guard anymore. Each time your thoughts aim to float | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the most unproductive approach imaginable. Thinking you must guard yourself against it by forceful measures avails you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| know by now, one has to be on guard. To really shed an image is not a | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you will gain even deeper insights. They will guard you from drawing the wrong conclusion that your | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you do love, nor will you need to guard against loving. This pseudo- protection causes you to | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| a plague against which you constantly have to guard yourself. Such defenses are destructive in themselves, as | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| pretense may be shown up. In order to guard against exposure, you invest valuable energies and soul | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| criticism or rejection is a danger you must guard against, you limit the range of your feelings | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| These alternatives force you to stay on your guard and be blind to life, other people, and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| a fresh, spontaneous experience, and you have to guard yourself against losing it. Therefore it is sometimes | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| that lead to reality? When you are off guard and do not tell them how to run | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| begin to use it. He will no longer guard against the supposed arbitrariness of life against which | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| have only imagined it all, and so they guard against the dreaded disappointment by summoning their inherently | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| such warm, loving feelings? If I do not guard myself and allow myself to feel, I will | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| are just as afraid to let down their guard as are the repressive and the superior types | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| friends, for then you will see how you guard yourself against insight and change by being so | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| argue that it is justified to be on guard. Aren't many people out to take advantage of | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| never allows oneself to relax, to let one's guard down, to let go, the winner cannot experience | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| feelings; why you repress and why you stand guard over the most spontaneous and creative forces within | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| be free. You then must constantly be on guard, and you must pretend. Therefore, where you harbor | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| just gave: giving up the frantic struggle to guard your inner secret chamber. As long as you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| personality that does not need to be on guard, that can afford to be relaxed and confident | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| as feelings, are hostile forces you need to guard yourself against. The natural feelings are always life- | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| to never trust any involuntary processes and to guard yourself against them by strict vigilance, using your | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| involuntary forces. You still believe you need to guard against them. And this brings us to the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| letting go and the less you need to guard against anything. A relaxed, spontaneous being is at | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| fear of it becomes; consequently, the more you guard yourself. The more guarded you are, the less | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| of selfishness are intrinsically healthy and right. They guard a person's inalienable right to be happy and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| per se. If you fear experience, you must guard against it in one way or another. On | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| superfluous and you need no longer be on guard against your own spontaneous reactions, you will be | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| can manifest in your personality. But if you guard against one expression of life in you, against | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| next question: What is it precisely that you guard against? In the last analysis it is always | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| then of course the intelligent person would rightly guard against anything that might resemble faith. For you | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| perfection available, so that you have to jealously guard your own and take it away from others | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| opinions makes you very vulnerable. You must then guard and defend an unrightful position of leadership. The | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| risk exposure and criticism. If you fear and guard against it, and yet grab for leadership because | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and safety, for you need not fear or guard against anyone or anything. QUESTION: A group of | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| should be trusted. I must always be on guard. You all have surrendered in some areas of | 254 SURRENDER |
| Guarded.....................8 | |
| people resort to several means, hoping to be guarded fully without risking anything, they will be pulled | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| no longer a secret that has to be guarded. Now it is up to you, all of | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| internal see-saw. Realize the extremes of the heavily guarded, overcontrolled, rigid, unspontaneous, unfeeling, overwatchful person as opposed | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| are people afraid that if they are not guarded and constantly watchful with their will and mind | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| consequently, the more you guard yourself. The more guarded you are, the less possible it is for | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| be emptied. When you hold yourself tight and guarded, you not only fail to protect yourself from | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| preposterous predicament of holding themselves tight and restricted, guarded and overwatchful, unable to be spontaneous, always determining | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| to risk, to confront, to admit your most guarded secret, and as a result to speak up | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Guardedness.................7 | |
| expression of your natural feelings. The degree of guardedness is not clear to begin with; these guards | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| energy, and delight. Those who are caught in guardedness and defensiveness and who are constantly watching themselves | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| self is totally unafraid of itself. Giving up guardedness seems like annihilation because then something other than | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| that could and should stream into you. Because guardedness impoverishes and deprives, you inevitably become enraged. Most | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| be outwardly unnoticeable, manifesting only in a certain guardedness and distorted self-protection. Outer good fellowship does not | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| you put yourself in a state of tension. Guardedness is tension. Pleasure and creativity can thrive only | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| doing! You live in a constant state of guardedness -- unbeknownst to your conscious mind. Therefore, the | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| Guardian....................27 | |
| self to the self -- or from the guardian spirit or what you call a master. The | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| die. This is always the task of the guardian spirit. The mission spirits fulfill the task of | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| course, that a spirit is chosen as a guardian who, remembering his last language on Earth, does | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| grows up, he or she is surrounded by guardian spirits who belong to the order and organization | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| attitude. Each spirit has somewhere and somehow a guardian. As far as human beings are concerned, everybody | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| human beings are concerned, everybody has indeed a guardian. Some have more than one, some have only | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| but there is never any injustice. Sometimes one guardian spirit may be more powerful than three or | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| who has more to accomplish has more powerful guardian spirits than a person who is just living | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| spirit scouts get in touch with that person's guardian spirits: the latter guide their proteges to someone | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| that every living being has at all times guardian spirits from the world of God. But some | 22 SALVATION |
| to give it, guidance starts in, partly from guardian spirits and partly emanating from your own higher | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| to be incarnated comes in contact with his guardian spirit or spirits; it may be the same | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| will lead him through the coming life. The guardian delivers the plan to the spirit in charge | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| importance, I would advise you to ask your guardian spirit to inspire you. And you will receive | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| QUESTION: Would you please tell us more about guardian angels? ANSWER: I have already spoken about this | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| being to whom God has not given a guardian -- none. Many human beings deny this fact | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| image that humanity held some time ago. Then, guardian angels and everything connected with them was distorted | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| ideas. Yet every human being is given a guardian. The guardian's strength and power depend on a | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| will change the plan made before incarnation. The guardian will not prevent that, whether the change is | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| in a direct or indirect way -- the guardian is free to meet her or him with | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| is not taken out of free will, the guardian cannot force the right decision on the protege | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a person turns toward God, the closer the guardian can come to the protege. The more he | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| she turns away from God, the farther the guardian stands. This cannot be helped. It is just | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| spirits can have over such a person. The guardian is often obliged to look on. In other | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| obliged to look on. In other cases, the guardian may prevent such influence. This depends on so | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| not be evil at all. But the regular guardian has to be an organized spirit. QUESTION: According | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| mission, is given a higher and more powerful guardian. Such guardians are often -- not always -- | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |