| in order to expand your own possibilities of happiness, your mind must grasp the principle that you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| between conceiving of further possibilities of expansion or happiness on the one hand, and daydreaming on the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| be really happy! Human life is very limited. Happiness, pleasure, and ecstasy are frivolous, selfish aims which | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| sense and has no good purpose. Fear of happiness, of pleasure, of wide expansion into one's life | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| is selfish to want personal fulfillment. Fear of happiness is also based on the fear of being | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| as for your right and ability to create happiness, the more you must live in fear. Consequently | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| will discover your ever-increasing right for pleasure and happiness. You will find that you move toward visions | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| sound absolutely incredible -- just as fear of happiness would. You would then say to yourself, This | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| degree they feel unhappy, unfulfilled, and empty, fears happiness, fulfillment, and pleasure, no matter how much they | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| forget this. Now then, fear of pleasure, of happiness, of fulfillment, is a reality applicable to all | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| to your own inner reactions which shrink from happiness and pleasure. To understand this in context, I | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| and pleasure, delight and creative living, fulfillment and happiness, can exist only when the real self is | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the direct determination of the outer self. Then happiness is not only possible but is a natural | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the real self. This is the kind of happiness that knows no fear of ending or loss | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| or unwelcome byproducts. It is the kind of happiness, as I said elsewhere, that is, at one | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| are trapped. Unless you see your fear of happiness in this light, you will not find your | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| must fear life and death, pleasure and fulfillment, happiness and unfoldment, one's feelings and the creative process | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| versus goodness. The word pleasure includes all personal happiness, fulfillment, gratification on all levels, self-interest, self-assertion. In | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Divine will works toward everyone's fulfillment, bliss and happiness. This undivided intelligence and inexorable fulfillment is deeply | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| within me? In the last analysis, my friends, happiness always amounts to the basic virtues religion preaches | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| pain. For error is pain as truth is happiness. Anyone working on such a path knows from | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| and deeply embrace limitless vistas of experience for happiness and self-expression, this is exactly what your reality | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| for life is so good. The truth is happiness, while unhappiness is always error and misconception. Do | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| indirectly and why it holds back to prevent happiness and unfoldment. To recognize the true unconscious state | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| health and wants to reestablish health, well-being and happiness. Truth in life equates with feeling good in | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| human beings believe they must sacrifice their fundamental happiness because to do this is right, good, or | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| feelings of love, for the deepest experiences of happiness, pleasure, union with others -- if health continues | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| a symptom leading to total health, fulfillment and happiness. Thus, what is good and what is bad | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| a happy individual can spread and give forth happiness. Only an individual who grows according to his | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| her potentials and life plan is happy. Thus happiness and the fulfillment of one's destiny are synonymous | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| else can determine my life, my growth, my happiness. I will not allow myself to subtly hitch | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| you hope to gain your selfhood, self-respect and happiness, you cannot comprehend the messages of your divine | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| who do not take themselves, their growth and happiness sufficiently seriously, as real factors to be reckoned | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| good for the real self, the real ultimate happiness and growth, of the other person. In the | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| that hinder the unfoldment of truth and the happiness of all concerned. When the duality splits selfishness | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| attitudes prevail, that which destroys true growth and happiness is believed to be the right way. It | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| unfoldment of the soul, must also produce vital happiness, vibrant stimulation and pleasure. For such is the | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| opposite of the desired state of fulfillment and happiness is not avoided, but its illusory nature is | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| believe it to be a question of your happiness versus the happiness of the other. You secretly | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| be a question of your happiness versus the happiness of the other. You secretly feel that by | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| that the key to every conceivable possibility of happiness lies within you -- that you harbor the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| from the center. They strive to find a happiness that can be found only in the opposite | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| to find your true nature and thus your happiness as a co-creator in the universe. Are there | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| blissful being. The majority of people, however, fear happiness much more than they desire it. They will | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| are many whose desire for and fear of happiness is approximately evenly divided. They will find areas | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| for the most intense bliss imaginable. What makes happiness apparently dangerous or undesirable? To the extent you | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the extent you reject yourself, you cannot bear happiness, you cannot sustain pleasure. There are two basic | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| organism unable to sustain the powerful energy of happiness. For happiness is indeed a powerful energy. Happiness | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to sustain the powerful energy of happiness. For happiness is indeed a powerful energy. Happiness requires more | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| happiness. For happiness is indeed a powerful energy. Happiness requires more strength than unhappiness. This strength can | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| reveal, commensurately, the awareness of your rejection of happiness. Wherever you may be on this path, at | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| you accept the truth about yourself and accept happiness. These two acceptances are interdependent. The third part | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| all strengths. Unhappiness requires much less strength than happiness. Strength can be generated only if you deliberately | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| you do not inadvertently, unconsciously, close up against happiness. Such prayer is just as important as seeking | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to use such opportunities of both crisis and happiness so as to be helped, strengthened, and inspired | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| however, you inwardly open up for pleasure, joy, happiness on all levels of your being, the open | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| gives the person a sense of not deserving happiness and love. The vague feeling of being undeserving | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| which creates a benign circle of pleasure and happiness. For example, a young man recently discovered his | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| attitude I must without giving up on your happiness? This kind of giving up is so easily | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| you will truly overcome the obstruction to your happiness. You all need help to do this. The | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and resources, through which forever greater possibilities for happiness manifest. Thus, a very important facet of self-observation | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| Because you believe the possibilities for expansion and happiness are too limited to give you sufficient scope | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| can ask yourself: Am I hopeless about deserving happiness because I, possibly quite justifiably, dislike certain traits | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| You can see that you are actually forsaking happiness, fulfillment, bliss, fruitful living. You may be terribly | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| and discover that it is you who rejects happiness, the same puzzling question may be put differently | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| ceaselessly seek ways to deny life, love, pleasure, happiness; to court decay, waste, and pain. The part | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| consciously formulating, thinking, and willing a state of happiness, aliveness, fulfillment, truth, love, growth, both in general | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| with the necessary creative energy. The will to happiness must become so strong that the causes for | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| resentful; often you will even forgo your own happiness just to punish someone from your past. To | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| can prepare for it. For you cannot allow happiness into your soul or eliminate the pervasive guilt | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| Your insistence on remaining as you are sacrifices happiness, pleasure, wholeness, love and expansion, yet it appears | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| utter abundance and goodness. Otherwise, your desire for happiness is counteracted constantly by an equal fear of | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| is counteracted constantly by an equal fear of happiness, so that you repel it even while you | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| entire fate is self-created, whether we live in happiness or unhappiness, fulfillment or misery. This basic metaphysical | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| virtually destroying himself and then expecting health and happiness to be given him by others -- he | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| maximum speed, and, in the dimension of feeling, happiness, bliss, profound experience, and ecstasy will become forever | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| and not fully living my life. My own happiness will contribute to the well-being of others. I | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| confronting that part of the self that destroys happiness, fulfillment, and wholeness. You can never create the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| aspect of the egotistical, destructive self that denies happiness, fulfillment, and beauty for any reason. So far | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| -- can become a creative power to build happiness, pleasure, love, expansion, for yourself and others around | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and apply this attitude, you will find your happiness and the truth that unites you with yourself | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| in you in which you react negatively to happiness -- and this is very regrettable because it | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| human apparatus grows, you become more acclimatized to happiness, to fulfillment, to bliss, to pleasure, to abundance | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| eternal because you fear death; if you wish happiness because you fear unhappiness; if you wish fullness | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| you might even gain fulfillment, contentment, pleasure, and happiness without these demands being fulfilled -- a novel | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| you can no longer bear bliss, pleasure, ecstasy, happiness. You feel more comfortable in greyness. The power | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| you deliberately destroy your chance of realizing your happiness by a particular attitude which leads to specific | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| if you now feel that you cannot bear happiness and pleasure -- if the current is too | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| lack the volition to give up what destroys happiness and joy. The first steps toward this new | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| The temptation to use spiritual practices to grab happiness and fulfillment, and to avoid already existing negativities | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| your personality wishes love and fulfillment, perfection and happiness, or pleasure and creative expansion without paying the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| suffering will inevitably free you to create your happiness. Let me close by saying that you are | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| real guilt. So when you find resistance to happiness, look for the meaning and the areas of | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| this. When such events disturb your state of happiness and peace, you are still very much removed | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| by far surpass your hopes and visualizations in happiness and fulfillment. Since your mind is often incapable | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| give you whatever you truly need for your happiness. Now I want to say a few words | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| dearest friends. Blessings for all of you here. Happiness and love follow truth -- the commitment to | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| the seed for all these potentials: truth, love, happiness, wisdom and peace. You possess these attributes, these | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| away. Now it is very important, for your happiness and your contentment, and for your living without | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| lower self for what I know to be happiness, abundance, and bliss? Why do I settle for | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| trait is in me that obstructs my true happiness? What in me makes me so destructive? How | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| I always emphasize the importance of your individual happiness, wholeness, and freedom from obstruction. This is not | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| right kind of selfishness feel deeply deserving of happiness because they never want it at the expense | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| also understand that this expansion will lead to happiness, even though happiness is also its prerequisite. There | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this expansion will lead to happiness, even though happiness is also its prerequisite. There is no division | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| prerequisite. There is no division between expansion and happiness. To follow the will of God cannot deprive | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the creativity of living, to joy, love, and happiness, and to the meaning your life has acquired | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| she knows that no man can give her happiness and flowing feelings unless she herself produces them | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| friends, than you can realize. The key to happiness and abundance is changing over to a new | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| now. If you choose, you can know the happiness of being an instrument fulfilling a task without | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| meaning. Everything seems arbitrary. You may feel occasional happiness and fulfillment, or gratification of your desires, yet | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| deep security in the meaningfulness of it all. Happiness that appears to be random contains no security | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| that state, you always fear to lose the happiness, and when you do lose it, the loss | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| life's abundance. You encounter the difficulty of sustaining happiness and pleasure so many times. You have begun | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| you still dare not believe. Much more fulfillment, happiness, pleasure and abundance exist in your lives. But | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| you will eliminate all further obstructions to real happiness rather than dream about gratifications. If you use | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| in your growth aids not only your own happiness and fulfillment, important as this is, but is | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| you have removed major obstructions to your fulfillment. Happiness means many things. It means all the things | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you of something you need: of vitality, health, happiness, joy, or perhaps of some inspiration that you | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| tasks is of the greatest importance, and the happiness of each of you is of the greatest | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| of you is of the greatest importance. Your happiness will be a natural expression of your devotion | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| devotion to the task that is waiting. So happiness will be a result, and at the same | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| life, and therefore of joy, fulfillment, freedom and happiness. I have also encouraged you to imagine expanding | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| and expand your range of personal fulfillment and happiness and enrichment must also grow. What you cannot | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| subsidiary longings, such as longing for health, for happiness, for abundance, for avoiding physical death as long | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| kind brings about an untold expansion of personal happiness and fulfillment. Yet personal happiness and fulfillment must | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| expansion of personal happiness and fulfillment. Yet personal happiness and fulfillment must not be the primary aim | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| the power to create a safe life, deserving happiness. Being wrong means being bad, unacceptable, having no | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| no power to create safety and not deserving happiness. This applies to the self and, by extension | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| at first seems inexplicable: where you retract from happiness, fulfillment, pleasure, and love. You close up your | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| You meditate, you visualize yourself being receptive to happiness, love, and fulfillment and yet this automatic reaction | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| from the light of Christ, which contains all happiness, eternal fulfillment, and life itself. Your hidden agenda | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| I say to you, do not wish for happiness as opposed to suffering, life as opposed to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| be human if you would not deeply desire happiness, life, health. But there is a state of | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| teachers and seers claim, God's will is your happiness, your human fulfillment, your health, your well-being, your | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |