| Haphazard...................18 | |
| behavior pattern is completely blind. The one is haphazard. It may be right or wrong, but you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| wrong conclusion partly, but it is still a haphazard realization. The entirety of the wrong assumption -- | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| do not appear rhythmic. They appear irregular and haphazard. The expansion cycle, for example, may be longer | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the anger and letting it out in a haphazard way. Feeling the anger, one accepts, faces, and | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| your life unlike anything else. There is nothing haphazard about your life. There is no outside power | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| growth process, either quite deliberate and committed or haphazard and unconscious, obstructed by blind opposing forces that | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| to the disconnected, unaware human being to be haphazard destiny. When you start on the road of | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| start on the road of your evolution, this haphazard fate is ascribed, on the most primitive level | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| on the most primitive level, to the equally haphazard will of a deity, far removed from the | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| but a power to be found within, the haphazard fate you fear is your own unconscious. The | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| cannot help feeling that the world is a haphazard place, without rhyme or reason. You will consequently | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| activate, you would indeed be left to a haphazard fate. But this is not the case. The | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| and anxiety-ridden. When you experience events as isolated haphazard happenings, life must appear meaningless, frightening, confusing and | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| words, indicate a lingering belief that life is haphazard and that your state of mind depends on | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| within the spiral, yet the movement is not haphazard but an expression of such profound harmony and | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| see and understand these happenings. They are not haphazard events. Whenever the consciousness is open, in truth | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and believe the effects to be coincidental and haphazard, you will not be encouraged to improve the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| very different. Sex will never be casual or haphazard; you will consider it a holy ritual. These | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Haphazardly.................4 | |
| the same with so-called miracles, only it happens haphazardly, and by coincidence, as it were, because humans | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| Do not permit it to work inadvertently, arbitrarily, haphazardly by your unwise, destructive and sloppy thinking processes | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| a fixed outer event you were put into haphazardly, was really a very logical extension of your | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| rhyme or reason. Fulfillment comes to you as haphazardly as tragedies and crises -- or so it | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Happenings..................45 | |
| you will be able to connect all outer happenings with them, following this chain reaction backward. The | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you will not be sustained by some outer happenings or experiences, but by the strength and wisdom | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| to some influence in their surroundings and certain happenings in their lives. These attitudes may or may | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| slave and being directed by moods and outer happenings. It is in your power to change. You | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| of yourself; you make yourself dependent on outer happenings over which you have no control. Say to | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| are then the so-called miracles, the so-called supernatural happenings. Any more questions? QUESTION: Could you explain to | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| As long as you are dependent on outer happenings over which you have no control, you will | 18 FREE WILL |
| can only be accomplished through all sorts of happenings, even seemingly unimportant and apparently coincidental ones. All | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| When the soul is strongly influenced by outer happenings of whatever kind, it is a sign that | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| come to understand that without such apparently disadvantageous happenings, these weaknesses could not enter your conscious mind | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you -- will become more than just meaningless happenings coming from the outside! You all know that | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| and even probable, that there are no unconnected happenings in your life. All unpleasant experiences are probably | 38 IMAGES |
| may experience a surprise. The most apparently unconnected happenings often turn out to have a single common | 38 IMAGES |
| As I said before, your image draws these happenings to you, as inevitably as night must follow | 38 IMAGES |
| emotionally in a way that will attract certain happenings to you as inevitably as a magnet draws | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| mean being pessimistic or looking forward to negative happenings if they are unnecessary. In its sick sense | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in your own life how you have caused happenings that seem entirely unjust. The better you understand | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the discovery of how you call forth all happenings in your life, good or bad, favorable or | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| unhappy incidents in your life, favorable or unfavorable happenings, will have exactly the same effect on you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| change. In your daily life you may experience happenings that may change a conscious conviction. However, if | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the connection between your erroneous attitudes and outer happenings that heretofore seemed arbitrary. Once you realize how | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| They will cease fearing forces, influences, people and happenings outside themselves, in the belief that they can | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you examine exactly why you fear only such happenings and not so many other possible mishaps in | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the significance of life can handle the good happenings no better than the adverse ones. Both need | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| to understand your emotions, you will evaluate outer happenings differently. The outer happenings are real, but up | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you will evaluate outer happenings differently. The outer happenings are real, but up to now the emotional | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| child's exaggeration and distorted black-and-white perception of life's happenings brings in its wake a further conflict. That | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| larger, hidden ones. Therefore, one needs the outer happenings to point to the inner condition. Thus the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| tendencies, as well as passing moods or outer happenings, you tune into one of these currents, while | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| different spirit than people who still ascribe certain happenings to a fate outside their control. People understanding | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all that. As long as you resent certain happenings in your life, as long as you disclaim | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as long as you disclaim responsibility for such happenings, you cannot even begin to set out finding | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| about it, deep inside. Think back to recent happenings or into the past. When did something occur | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| a question of superimposing doctrines or postulates. Various happenings and results have puzzled you when you saw | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| conscious. QUESTION: We claim that attitudes determine the happenings in our lives. How is it that people | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| my friends, if you are afraid of certain happenings in life. Are you not doubtful of your | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the world -- your attitude to life, to happenings and to others -- can only be a | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| and feelings. You have direct control over certain happenings. Your outer, direct will can determine certain actions | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| experience. My fear of so-called good or bad happenings is based on illusion. Thus you will learn | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| dying. One's will and attitude cause all outer happenings; so it is with the universal earth phenomenon | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| approaches to life, attract or repulse events, people, happenings, and actions of others and also of yourself | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| anxiety-ridden. When you experience events as isolated haphazard happenings, life must appear meaningless, frightening, confusing and burdensome | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| to learn how to see and understand these happenings. They are not haphazard events. Whenever the consciousness | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| these historical consequences out of context, as mere happenings, thereby seeing the Jews as victims, you rob | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| being, you must experience life, death, and all happenings in a very different way. This way is | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Happier.....................37 | |
| yet right within you, so that you become happier. You have to be clear about what obstacles | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| do it only for yourself, then becoming a happier person will be a means to make others | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| person will be a means to make others happier, to give and love more. If you have | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you down will make you stronger, freer and happier; with every forward step you will understand better | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| are inferior to others and yet are much happier. This appears to be an injustice. Why is | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| were before, and, needless to say, a somewhat happier person. You will not be quite the same | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| individual means more to us and makes us happier than lukewarm participation by the many. Now I | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| can promise that you will evolve a much happier, freer and securer person. This is the only | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| former masters. At any rate, it is much happier in the beyond, as a rule, than on | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the other being. The more this happens, the happier the marriage will be, the more firmly and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| terms with the knowledge you have gained, the happier the times of fruition will be for you | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| now have. All could live in a much happier state than now prevails. Let me extend divine | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is considered wrong, but actually one would be happier to be able to be selfish. On the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from that. You yourself benefit by becoming a happier person and enjoy the right to be yourself | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| idea that selfishness, if allowed, would be a happier state, may be only in your unconscious mind | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| find a consciously-held belief that you would be happier if you were allowed to be selfish. Whether | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| will stand in the way of producing the happier or more desirable state that is otherwise produced | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the light a stronger and freer person, a happier and more serene human being. The time will | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| properly applied and assimilated, you will become a happier person, but certainly not because you become a | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Many religious practices, however, will not make you happier. That is why you think there is such | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a consequence, you will not only become a happier person, but you will also be able to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| others something that already exists, makes you a happier person. You have the right to happiness, and | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| only grow up and become a stronger and happier human being, you also contribute much more than | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and perfect is eliminated, you will be much happier and more perfect than you were before. Thus | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it in order to live a fuller and happier life, and thus give more happiness. You will | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you are bound to come out a stronger, happier person, better equipped to live in the true | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| self-finding with the vague outlook of becoming a happier and more fulfilled person; it is another when | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| be strengthened, so as to become freer and happier. Be in peace, be in God! 118. DUALITY | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| might against that which makes life easier and happier, more agreeable and safe. Yet people believe the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| It is then that you fight against the happier, easier, fuller life and hold onto unnecessary hardship | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| necessary to outgrow it and become stronger and happier. Learn to recognize the subtle yet enormous difference | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| life is. You will then know that the happier you are, the more you contribute to others | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| understand why you do not live in a happier and more fulfilled state. This will have the | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| that your longing for this utopian kind of happier state is unrealistic and should be abandoned. But | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| it. But this does not make them any happier; on the contrary. Their stake in not growing | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| us this most beautiful gift. I never felt happier in my life, she said, coming out of | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| your train will take you to is a happier one, without many of the drawbacks of your | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |