| higher degree of consciousness and therefore also of happiness. This example may make it easier for you | 18 FREE WILL |
| you have no control, you will never know happiness. You may feel temporary contentment, but you will | 18 FREE WILL |
| over you or over your circumstances. The only happiness that is durable and cannot be taken away | 18 FREE WILL |
| the spiritual field will be completely filled with happiness and certainty. That person will know beyond the | 18 FREE WILL |
| reach perfection and to reach that state of happiness where you can be of best service to | 18 FREE WILL |
| not because the union with God means inexpressible happiness and unimaginable bliss -- though this is a | 18 FREE WILL |
| unimaginable. There is such bliss, such rejoicing, such happiness and such wisdom coming from this light! For | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| spirit signifies the life eternal of bliss and happiness for the spiritual essence of each individual after | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| you seek and need in the way of happiness and spiritual food in the faith you are | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| wrongly is nothing compared to the bliss and happiness of eternity after the self-inflicted misery has been | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| before a material world existed: worlds of harmony, happiness, infinite beauty, and infinite possibilities which unfolded creative | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| this view is so shortsighted and so blind. Happiness can only exist for any created being through | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| for only in God and with God lies happiness. But through this misery arises a stronger incentive | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| its true double or counterpart, because through the happiness which such reunion entails lies a duty to | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| be other partners with whom not only great happiness can be built, but also with whom other | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| not you have found your task through the happiness or unrest it communicates to you. All you | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| and no power. There can be no divine happiness, in fact, no divinity at all, if it | 21 THE FALL |
| to return to God and thus find ultimate happiness. God made Christ the King of the Universe | 22 SALVATION |
| upward, forward, nearer to God, to perfection, to happiness that can never be robbed from you. Without | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| state of awareness, development, and therefore also personal happiness. All this does not only apply to incidents | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God is so much nearer to you, that happiness can be so much nearer than you think | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| earth or in heaven to gain harmony, love, happiness, and complete inner security where nothing evil can | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| magic formula by which you can obtain the happiness you all seek. I cannot promise you the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is the path a miracle that will procure happiness for you without demanding from you all you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| any rate, none of you can truly achieve happiness in this life if you do not accomplish | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of all the good things in life -- happiness, joy, pleasure -- if your soul becomes healthy | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| law. Only then will you be capable of happiness. For how many people are capable of happiness | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| happiness. For how many people are capable of happiness? Very few, my friends. The majority of people | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| majority of people are actually as scared of happiness as of unhappiness. You desire great happiness, all | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of happiness as of unhappiness. You desire great happiness, all of you, but the farther out of | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| to be a chance to actually realize such happiness, you then shrink away from it. Oh yes | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| can do so are capable of experiencing real happiness. So everything you do in life will have | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| atheists; they, too, are seeking God. Everyone seeks happiness, love, and security, and that is God! Of | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| terms or through emotional ties. People also seek happiness, love, and security by reaching for some outstanding | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| with courage and conviction, will you find true happiness and security in God, with God, and through | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| forces determines their lives, their harmony, and their happiness. I have often mentioned that activity and passivity | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and false one guides you is by the happiness, relief, freedom, and the sense of utter rightness | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| I say happy, I do not mean the happiness that you believe would be yours if the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| were fulfilled. I am talking about the greater happiness that must be yours when you walk on | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| you have attained a certain height, your own happiness will no longer be the goal. It will | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| that the ultimate purpose is not your own happiness, but the service you give and are to | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| so often turn the wrong way; you seek happiness in the wrong direction; you blame others for | 31 SHAME |
| the more relief, the more victory, the more happiness, the more self-respect, and the more inner joy | 31 SHAME |
| your development which alone can bring you true happiness and security. If you lack happiness and you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| you true happiness and security. If you lack happiness and you possess this trait, you should not | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| want to steal something. I desire to steal happiness -- or any other result. Realize, please, that | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| particularly strive for higher forms of consciousness and happiness. Their choice may often be an easier life | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| life may bring: hardship and joy, unhappiness and happiness, periods of darkness, periods of light, disappointments in | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| more of a burden than a cause for happiness? Something within you knows that you do not | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| unselfish giving will bring you a feeling of happiness and security that never comes to you when | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| to observe your feelings when you wish them happiness. Do not deceive yourself. Say to yourself, A | 36 PRAYER |
| the ability to embrace pain as well as happiness. Pray that you do not love your ego | 36 PRAYER |
| the ultimate sense, pain must be one with happiness. When you reach a certain point on your | 36 PRAYER |
| difference between pain and pleasure. Pain will be happiness and happiness will be pain in a blissful | 36 PRAYER |
| pain and pleasure. Pain will be happiness and happiness will be pain in a blissful sense. All | 36 PRAYER |
| life to bring me unhappiness as well as happiness. I will not flinch from life's clouds. I | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| adversity courageously will I be able to bear happiness and be able to give happiness. You can | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| to bear happiness and be able to give happiness. You can arrive at spiritual poise only if | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| brings such joy that nothing can mar your happiness. Furthermore, you can be quite sure that the | 38 IMAGES |
| wants for them is contrary to their own happiness. Others are willing to sacrifice anything for God | 38 IMAGES |
| images they will never truly succeed. The more happiness results from their sacrifices, the worse their guilt | 38 IMAGES |
| the worse their guilt becomes until true inner happiness is conceived. Such guilt is always a twist | 38 IMAGES |
| and is connected with the image. Actually, true happiness cannot come before the image and the guilt | 38 IMAGES |
| that the sole purpose of life is not happiness, but that life is given to you to | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is given to you to learn both from happiness and unhappiness, will not give in to the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| in that. If you believe that wanting the happiness that inevitably results from purification, after a certain | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| work: Only those who are happy can bring happiness to others. I do not mean cheap and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| I do not mean cheap and easily obtainable happiness, but the real thing that comes only by | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| see an unhappy person who can truly bring happiness to others. That is impossible. An unhappy person | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| from praying for others, and consider the resulting happiness a byproduct, a means to an end, rather | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| selfish motive is not as pure as expecting happiness only as a byproduct, it is still a | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| a lower degree of consciousness, however, believes that happiness results from giving in to all the desires | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| emotionally not there yet. Also realize that secluded happiness is impossible. The separating wall must crumble, and | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| as your fear of it. You all desire happiness and you all desire to give happiness, yet | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| desire happiness and you all desire to give happiness, yet you cannot achieve either one without losing | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| become happy. But do not pray directly for happiness. Pray for the strength and ability to remove | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the obstacles you have placed between yourself and happiness. This means going through the unhappiness, self-inflicted by | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| part of life's necessary experience, but beauty and happiness as well. The emotion-type fears that curbing and | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| only in understanding why you cannot realize the happiness that a part of your soul yearns for | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| I said before, many use this feeling of happiness carelessly and greedily, never passing the threshold into | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| It is our greatest joy and our greatest happiness. And so, my dear ones, receive the blessings | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| light and truth. Go in peace and in happiness, my dear ones, each one of you. Be | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you will be able to live in eternal happiness, without any woe, without any sorrow, without any | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Wherever the life force has not been violated, happiness -- that is, complete harmony and peace -- | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| fear of losing it again that accompany temporary happiness for you human beings. You all know from | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| find in yourself that which obstructs your own happiness and to find the law of the Divine | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the other person, because you wish to bring happiness and love into your surroundings regardless of your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| humility. By paying the price you will find happiness and peace. Bearing your cross, which you always | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| that much greater. Therefore the child unconsciously avoids happiness, thinking to atone in this way and thus | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| for in life. It is this fear of happiness that leads a person to all sorts of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the one hand, the personality is yearning for happiness and fulfillment, on the other, a fear of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and fulfillment, on the other, a fear of happiness prohibits the fulfillment. Although the desire for happiness | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| happiness prohibits the fulfillment. Although the desire for happiness can never be eradicated, yet, due to this | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| deeply hidden guilt feeling, the stronger one desires happiness, the guiltier one feels. Many personal as well | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| being punished and the fear of not deserving happiness create a further and more complicated reaction. The | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| is the only way to give love and happiness and to become happy and be loved. The | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| undeserving of what God wants you to have: happiness, light, love. Be in peace, my dear friends | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| soul calls forth; that you do not avoid happiness because you are afraid of unhappiness; that you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you on this earth plane could enjoy perfect happiness in every possible respect. For the creative life | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| ready to give you joy, strength, vitality, and happiness. As far as the universe is concerned, there | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| not seek for miracles, tricks, and shortcuts to happiness. It cannot be. Be blessed, be in peace | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| believes in his intellect that his life and happiness depend on what other people think of him | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| peace, be in God! 58. THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS Greetings! God bless | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of you, blessed be this evening. With great happiness I resume my contact with you. I will | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| way, if you so desire. The wish for happiness exists in every living being. However, the concept | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in every living being. However, the concept of happiness varies according to the development of each individual | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| each individual. Due to a distorted concept of happiness, another desire comes into existence in the human | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| set in motion by a wrong concept of happiness. The desire for happiness is already in existence | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| a wrong concept of happiness. The desire for happiness is already in existence when the human entity | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in the small infant. The infant's idea of happiness is fulfillment of all its desires instantly and | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| are distortions and misunderstandings of the right concept. Happiness in the wrong concept is expressed in the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and when I want it, can I have happiness. I will be unhappy with any way other | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to meet this requirement, the person's world crumbles. Happiness becomes an impossibility, not just for the time | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| white. It knows no in-between. Either there is happiness or there is unhappiness. If things happen in | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| infant realizes very early that the kind of happiness it wants is unattainable. The child feels dependent | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| find that the primitive and distorted concept of happiness actually amounts to a desire for omnipotent rulership | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to outgrow the unrealistic and unrealizable concept of happiness and build the proper, mature, realistic, and realizable | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| reach the goal of perfection right away, since happiness through omnipotent rulership is desired at once. To | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| order to be happy. The wrong concept of happiness inevitably causes a wrong concept of love as | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Let me recapitulate briefly the wrong concept of happiness: I can only be happy if things go | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| things go my way. The mature concept of happiness in its highest unfoldment is: I am independent | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| that much nearer to complete freedom and infinite happiness. Thus, even difficult times will have the power | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| shines brightly again. With the mature concept of happiness, and therefore of life itself, the fact that | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| despair. One truly accepts that life holds both happiness and unhappiness. So when unhappiness comes along, the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of love, inherent in the wrong concept of happiness, is as follows: If I am loved, I | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| according to the right concept of love and happiness. All of you, without exception, will be able | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the complex and universal basic phenomenon of misunderstood happiness. As I said, the human personality finds it | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| finds it more and more impossible to find happiness according to the wrong concept, the only one | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the long run. Unconsciously, the person argues: Since happiness is denied me and unhappiness inevitable and inflicted | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the desire for perfection in order to attain happiness, in order to be the ruler of the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| self. Your life seems at stake, for all happiness seems to slip out of reach if you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| face, and give up the infantile concept of happiness, rulership, and perfection. The idealized self is always | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| with the subject just discussed. Since you want happiness according to your idea, and life, or God | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| that is the following: Since I can attain happiness only by being an omnipotent ruler, I have | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in your own soul, create and bring you happiness, harmony, and what you may call luck. Soul | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| becomes bleak and hopeless with no chance for happiness, because your concept of happiness in one part | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| no chance for happiness, because your concept of happiness in one part of your unconscious mind means | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| and no one else -- create your own happiness and unhappiness. Observation of the manifold connections and | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| see that enacting the compulsion does not bring happiness; quite the contrary. By seeing that the unconscious | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| May you all find the strength and the happiness that self-search and self-understanding means. Be blessed, my | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| compulsive burden one unconsciously struggles against, sacrificing one's happiness, in the belief that it constitutes unselfishness. If | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| In fact, only then can you really bring happiness, help, or any other constructive contribution to your | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you free and further your growth, independence and happiness. QUESTION: Might I ask, how much can be | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| free and happy being, capable of giving freedom, happiness and love to others. For that is the | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not suffering, not in pain, but in true happiness. Be blessed, my dearest friends, be in God | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |