| Honor.......................21 | |
| humble servant and will always give God the honor. It will not claim to be the highest | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| organic growth. As long as this process lasts, honor God by accepting His laws; do not love | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| developed a creature, the less it will want honor and admiration. That is due only to the | 21 THE FALL |
| finishing touches can be added, all in the honor of the Lord and in the honor of | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| the honor of the Lord and in the honor of the Savior, Jesus Christ. Occasionally, I will | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| parents whom one is supposed to love and honor. It is this guilt, living on and on | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| loving yourself would mean that you do not honor the divine manifestation you represent. Not loving yourself | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| yardstick, my friends. In that way you will honor the grace of this communication and preserve the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of Him with all our love. We cannot honor Him better than pursuing this work in which | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| quite different, perhaps best described by the words honor or respect. The respect paid to the highest | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| this case, forcing and guilt make love and honor into something compulsive that destroys real understanding and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| destroys real understanding and subsequently real love and honor. In blindness, you cannot respect and love when | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the parents and superimpose artificial, compulsive love and honor, you are even further from true love and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Do not begin by trying to love and honor what seems impossible for you now. Begin by | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| self-rejection will vanish. And that is the real honor and love that one human being can have | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| may be. At the same time, respect and honor your inner processes and allow them to take | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and ride trustfully with life. I want to honor God by accepting life on its own terms | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| honesty, and integrity. When the willingness exists to honor decency, truth, love and fairness more than the | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the great movement and feel the privilege, the honor, the beauty and the excitement of it. To | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| want. For if what you want might reduce honor and esteem from others, it may seem preferable | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| the same woman. A man can give relative honor and relative love to a woman he has | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Honorable...................3 | |
| dishonesty is comparatively easy when rationalized by conscientiousness, honorable standards and goals, and a desire to be | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you own up to your evil, the more honorable you become, and the more you will know | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| believe that in order to be lovable and honorable they must never be wrong. This belief brings | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Honored.....................4 | |
| is destructive, this, as all choices, must be honored. But once you choose for the positive alternative | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| only when this deep conflict is understood and honored and when you finally allow yourself to harmonize | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| their eyes. So when you are praised and honored, you derive a great momentary sense of gratification | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| strong sexual feelings for the woman he loved, honored, and respected. Sometimes the unconscious fear of the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Honoring....................4 | |
| workings of the law as a way of honoring God. They will not try to get out | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| very special blessings, at this time of year, honoring the greatest Being who ever lived; the Being | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| respect, you will also strengthen your selfhood. By honoring the individual rhythm of your personal path, you | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| discovery but because of it -- loving and honoring yourself the more. The tragedy of this pseudo-solution | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Hook........................7 | |
| avoided. That is, a mature person will not hook in. But most people, in one form or | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| I do, I let my parents off the hook. Or I may be expected to give something | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| self-rejection and self- doubt. You cannot help but hook others, with their own unconscious conflicts, into your | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| go at that, at least you do not hook others into your guilt for not loving. You | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| the person is entangled lets them off the hook by admitting his or her own negative intentionality | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| and growth-producing attitude would let you off the hook and make it possible for you to believe | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| so liberating! It will let you off the hook of your own secret self-accusation and it will | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Hooked......................9 | |
| but not to give. Those who are still hooked, consciously or unconsciously, on receiving will fear fulfillment | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| distorted and neurotic reasons that may keep you hooked on this appearance level and abandon it, just | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you, you also discover how you have remained hooked on blaming. For no matter how much your | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| cause is your persistence and insistence on staying hooked on needs that are by now false needs | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and your receptive faculties. However, when you are hooked on negative intentionality, it is impossible to be | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| such things -- then you can see yourself hooked and trapped there. The freeing new thought process | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| of your misery. This is how people are hooked together in denial, guilt-projection, either/or struggle, confusion, and | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| more you blame yourself, the more you are hooked on blaming, and the greater your investment in | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| arises, at least one set of values is hooked on the appearance level, possibly without your knowing | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Hope........................219 | |
| happiness. Those who use the happiness that they hope to attain or have already attained to contribute | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| beings to integrate into your understanding, but I hope my words can spark a flash of insight | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| way, a fear to hold on to the hope that this difficult life is not the last | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| by the sort of proof for which you hope. Doubt is the opposite of faith; and faith | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| suppose you were to receive the proof you hope for, but without first removing your inner obstacles | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| God. Do not disregard Christ so easily. I hope you have understood me, and I hope you | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| I hope you have understood me, and I hope you do not misinterpret these words. There need | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| seek salvation. And as you humans also constantly hope for, they too desire salvation by outer means | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| up, or do I do it because I hope to gain something? In other words, see if | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| embedded in everyone of you? Why do you hope to gain the greatest and most precious treasure | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| sense? Certainly not. However, many of you still hope somehow to do that. Many of you human | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| find a spark, to experience God. Perhaps you hope to do this by seeking general, abstract knowledge | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| without accepting the disadvantage. And often you even hope -- again without thinking it through clearly -- | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| in hand completely. If you emotionally and unconsciously hope to attain spiritual development and thus peace of | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| answer, my friends. And hearing these words, I hope you will not use the idea of desirelessness | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| may be involved. I can only pray and hope that these unruly currents will weaken with time | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| cannot help feeling that way now, but I hope to become free of them. By observing yourself | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a person's final attitude in this respect. I hope none of you will misunderstand me and conclude | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the right attitude toward a forthcoming venture, a hope, or anything else in your life. Until you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| uncomfortable, and against your selfish desires. Then your hope that your inner voice warning against your selfish | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to be made fully conscious before you can hope to break the circle. Only after you have | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| another, and finally a breakdown in the hidden hope that this will change people and circumstances. And | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| doing the right act without self-deception, in the hope that one day you will be capable of | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| in this coming season. Let me express the hope that all my dear friends will continue in | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| The immature part of your personality hopes against hope that perhaps after all it will be possible | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| try it anew it will be easier. I hope I will not be misunderstood. I do not | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a single exception. You all have just this hope and desire at least in some way: freedom | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of judging on the surface because you still hope that the world of Utopia can actually exist | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| discussions and questions on tonight's subject. Let us hope that my words will help you to actively | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| In this part of your psyche you still hope that what you want can happen through your | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I discussed. When you seek contact in the hope of stilling existing doubts, even though the hope | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hope of stilling existing doubts, even though the hope and the doubts may not be conscious, then | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only in stages. The first stage you can hope to reach is to free yourself of the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| because you are tired of life's problems and hope to free yourself of them in this way | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| unreality in you. How then can you ever hope to attain even the slightest glimpse of reality | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| and tensely you construct illusory forms, in the hope that your desire can be fulfilled. This process | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| may think this unconsciously. You may, again unconsciously, hope the solution will be handed to you, for | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| must come, sooner or later, and let us hope that you will swing over from one state | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| beyond many who cannot even do this. I hope my words will not be misunderstood to mean | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| submissiveness. When you are submissive you cling, and hope for the love of others. To obtain it | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| from others what they consider necessary. The only hope they see is in their using all their | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| desire, I shall answer your questions which, we hope, may help you personally and make this a | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| emotions, and everything pertaining to your person. You hope by all these measures either to gain what | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| various denominational groups to get together, in the hope of becoming united. In spite of these attempts | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| claiming any knowledge, accomplishment, of strength. Thereby they hope to force others to feel loving and protecting | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| behavior away by discipline, the best you can hope to achieve is to force the symptom away | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of you. In the next working season we hope you will accomplish further insight, growth, and self- | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your strength will grow. You will no longer hope for God to give you what you should | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| be well disposed toward me, or so I hope. From a sense of humiliation you will develop | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| receive. In other words, somewhere deep inside, you hope and believe that it is possible to belong | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that it is not the same. Inside, you hope and believe it possible to unite with others | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| no longer cling to the comfortable, but unrealizable hope that you can have what you want without | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| say that more or less all of you hope to accomplish this without tending to your emotional | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you still want to cling to the childish hope that spiritual growth is possible while you neglect | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| speak -- result from it? How can you hope to gain spirituality -- and spirituality, religion, and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| must look away from my destructive impulses and hope that by my looking away they disappear. Do | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| uncover your persistent clinging to illusion and false hope, your reluctance to face reality, or to relinquish | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| It may be the expression of a childish hope that by speaking about God and the spirit | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| help in your work, a little further incentive, hope, strength, and inner push, without tension or anxiety | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| because you cannot cope with the issue, you hope for life to offer a solution. This helplessness | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| afraid. When I have that feeling, I feel hope. Now I don't have that feeling and I | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| for and live in the future, when I hope to be perfect, and finally experience perfect happiness | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| there and have not seen what follows. I hope you will see it, because even if I | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| undeliberately -- and yet deliberately -- you still hope and strive to have your real self manifest | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| haste, without moralizing, without denial, then you can hope for the understanding that is necessary to grow | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| him. He clings to this authority in the hope of being relieved of self-responsibility. On the other | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| it is a discrepancy that can have no hope of finding realization. But this does not mean | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| fill you with a light, a strength, a hope. Be in peace, be in God! 108. FUNDAMENTAL | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| experiences as a wonderful feeling of peace, of hope, and of joy. But after the impact is | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| love. Be in peace. Be in God. 110. HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| questions. QUESTION: How do faith in God and hope tie in with this path of self-purification? ANSWER | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| between our path and faith in God and hope? QUESTION: Well, I am referring particularly to the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| pathwork is opposed to faith in God and hope? Does talking about God determine the inner attitude | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| it is brought out into daylight. Your superimposed hope masks an inner hopelessness that says, If I | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| is what it amounts to. Is that superimposed hope a reality? Is it not much better to | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| much better to face the underlying hopelessness until hope -- as well as faith, or any other | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| any falsity? To talk about artificial faith and hope as if they were genuine, while in reality | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| destroy the false beliefs. Faith in God and hope, like any other divine aspect, can be well | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| faith and hopefulness, rather than having faith and hope in the now and the self -- which | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| does not also consist of genuine faith and hope, but it is strongly mixed with an attempt | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| there can be no love, no faith, no hope. Truth does not mean the learning of principles | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| away from will do it. Therefore, faith and hope are not contradictory, nor incompatible, nor just something | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| of feelings, just as the superimposed faith and hope cover their hidden opposites. In order to fully | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you all be flooded by a wave of hope and security that you live in a benign | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| reasons: you do not like the present and hope for something better from the future; or else | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| come to pass in exactly the way you hope, imagine, or fear it. But let us suppose | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| shift the control to outer circumstances in the hope that the damage can be repaired from the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| that deep in one's soul one hopes against hope that it is possible to remain a child | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| come from others, so one clings to this hope. This is a main reason for resisting removal | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| that you have been clinging to an unjustified hope, and that you did not wish to acknowledge | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| to shove an unpleasant feeling aside in the hope that it will go away. Observe how you | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| confusion. This, in itself, is bound to bring hope and security. It eliminates feeling an innocent victim | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| discovered, the feeling of liberation and strength, of hope and light, is such a profound experience that | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| these, it is only in theory, and they hope such defects to be dissolved by a comfortable | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| our work together next year when we all hope to make further progress on this path. Question | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| thus to the superimposed conscience. With it, you hope to appease, coerce and force, as it were | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is of the greatest possible importance. I do hope that many of you, my friends, who are | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| jotting down what occurs to you. Let us hope that this lecture, in spite of much repetition | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| make room for genuine -- not superimposed -- hope, and a positive attitude toward life. You will | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| fact in your everyday lives, not merely a hope in some vague future. Go on in the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| relief from tension, fear, and anxiety. It infuses hope: not wishful thinking, not escape or daydreaming of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| vaguely hoped for miracle bringing salvation, but realistic hope, justified because a clear way presents itself, a | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| fear you may not be liked and helplessly hope that perhaps you might be. Meanwhile, what escapes | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you discover (a) the feeling of helplessness, vague hope and fear that something should or should not | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| I am afraid of being rejected. I just hope for the best, but I am afraid, for | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| can get by is blind. Holding back, you hope that life will first give you a big | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| event not come true. In other words, you hope to make your defenses more adequate so as | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| I am now. I do not need unjustified hope. Even if my doubts -- that I do | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| since ego development is so difficult, and they hope that this vital step can simply be avoided | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| to turn in the wrong direction, hoping against hope to find salvation without meeting yourself in the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| for the self, indirectly affecting others, with no hope of change as long as the process remains | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of the future direction of the pathwork. I hope this attempt will succeed so that you will | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| find themselves -- skirt the issue. Vaguely they hope that they can accomplish the goal without fully | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| have gained an insight, or a glimpse, a hope and a light. This light shows that you | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| now with the request and the wish and hope that all of you who are present here | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| It will change what is hopeless into bright hope, what is fearful into deep security and confidence | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| have gained a new strength and a new hope. For whenever this awareness is alive, you see | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| with the unwelcome results must give you new hope and a new outlook. Those friends who have | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| talk yourself into a hopeless situation because you hope to avoid the correction, which only seems a | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| it tenaciously. It is some kind of a hope for a sort of magical transformation of my | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| loved, accepted, and served by others, and you hope to attain this by triumphing over them. You | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| believe this misconception follow an erroneous path: they hope to attain one of the illusory opposites as | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| verbalizing them, is the first step. Again, I hope I will not be misunderstood and my words | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| were lifted off me. I feel a new hope, but at the same time there is fear | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| time there is fear contained in this new hope. What can you tell me about this? ANSWER | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| power that was hitherto paralyzed. This induces the hope, where before you felt hopeless, that you might | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| that it is false. When you fear the hope that opens to you, it is because you | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| in the threat: Your misconception is that the hope of new life simultaneously contains danger. Your conflict | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| lecture? QUESTION: It has to do with the hope a human being could have... ANSWER: It upsets | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| is as much wishful thinking as the childish hope that a deity will do your salvation for | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| hopelessness is no less wishful escapism than the hope of being taken care of by another intelligence | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| principle is always safe, always holds out justified hope that will never be disappointed. There is never | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| understanding in this respect. I realize, and I hope all of you realize, that it does not | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| life begins to open up with light and hope and fullness and a sense of life is | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| light, new strength, new insight, and therefore new hope. They would find a way out that may | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| urgent the need, the greater your dependency, your hope, and the more frantic your attempts to please | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| we are dealing with levels of consciousness. I hope it is quite clear that no sacrifice or | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| that you must choose between giving up your hope for complete fulfillment for the sake of decency | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| replace it. No substitute solution you seek or hope for can ever equal the true feeling of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| progresses. But the beginner clings to the unconscious hope of finding the causes of his or her | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the more something happens inside. Therein lies all hope and the salvation one looks for. It must | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| will deal, once again, with this topic. I hope I will open a few more doors for | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in the approval of others, through which you hope to gain your selfhood, self-respect and happiness, you | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| guide you will make this more than a hope or a faraway goal. The state of divine | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| that new spiritual approach, always in the vague hope that it will open the gates to life | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| end, for they are evasions, born in the hope that you will not have to dissolve the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| your personality. May these words lift you in hope, courage and renewed stamina to proceed further on | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| little the pain makes room for pleasure. Safety, hope, new experience -- they are all available, but | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| wrong way, they believe that existence and all hope of bliss end forever. All human beings long | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| away, they believe that there is no other hope or solution in sight. In that sense the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| you with a lot more self-respect, integrity, and hope than the helpless resignation to circumstances life is | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| former always give a sense of joy, liberation, hope, strength, light. They infuse new energy into your | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| change, this is what justifiably and realistically gives hope, no matter how hopeless a situation or a | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| need the illusion that others do it. You hope to come to bliss without meeting that aspect | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| in you which makes reaching bliss impossible. You hope to become a truly self-accepting and self- respecting | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to do alone. It is utter illusion to hope -- consciously or unconsciously -- that facing these | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| own temporary state not with despair but with hope, because the hope will be justified by the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| not with despair but with hope, because the hope will be justified by the positiveness and realism | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| If you cannot relinquish this satisfaction, you cannot hope to come out of the cycle of false | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| this game. But now there is a new hope. The way is clear, even if he should | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| help you open up your innermost being. I hope you will continue and cultivate this process, so | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| alternate with heights of golden light, carrying justified hope for an eventual uninterrupted state of bliss. No | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| self does not try where it should. False hope and false resignation are only two sides of | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of either falsely waiting or falsely giving up hope. The pushing exhausts the self and renders it | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| me? ANSWER: This is a good example. I hope to hear many more personal problems like this | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| little light going on inside yourself, giving you hope and strength, showing you from yet another side | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| you lose yourself. You lose the sense of hope, of real fulfillment and experience. The latter can | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| disappointed or experience delusions. No exercises, efforts, or hope for grace intervening from outside can bring you | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| more justified negativity. Unrealistic hopelessness and unrealistic magical hope are the two extremes which lead to a | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| such dualistic paradoxes of false doubt and false hope. Many years ago in a lecture called The | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| of feeling your hopelessness lies true and justified hope; through the gateway of accepting the lacks of | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| who you really are. It creates the false hope that you can eliminate any undesirable feelings by | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| of fear of the opposite state and the hope of an escape. In other words, if you | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| although usually you do this with the unconscious hope that your very problematic attitudes that render you | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| be fulfilled, continuous frustration and emptiness wipe out hope, blacken vision, and induce resentment, hate, blame, and | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| Doing so seems to require giving up all hope for a loving partner. Exactly the opposite is | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| connecting links will bring more light and more hope. But when they are absent, you should not | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| different spirit. One's attitude will be one of hope and purpose, rather than that of a helpless | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| move within a vicious circle there is no hope. But the moment the vicious circle is broken | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| fear, anxiety, and tension. As long as you hope against hope that your life should be free | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| and tension. As long as you hope against hope that your life should be free from painful | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| life should be free from painful feelings, you hope for an illusion. Deep down you know it | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| have not consciously and fully experienced. The wishful hope with which you are all familiar is nourished | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| that go with that, rather than accept the hope, light, and freedom of self- responsibility. This indicates | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| does not mean wishful thinking, daydreaming, fantasizing, illusory hope. All of these are attempts to whisk away | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and to reinvesting one's energies and resources, brings hope -- not false hope, but realistic expectation. You | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| energies and resources, brings hope -- not false hope, but realistic expectation. You pin so much on | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| But there exists a real, realistic and realizable hope: a hope that is not bound to wind | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| exists a real, realistic and realizable hope: a hope that is not bound to wind up in | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to wind up in disappointments and disillusionments. This hope slowly but surely grows into manifest reality and | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to make this possible. Wherever peace, fulfillment, light, hope, and trusting closeness to your intimate friends are | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| way for a wonderful new energy: for light, hope, love, and beauty. Violations of spiritual law can | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| worst in themselves inevitably feels elation, liberation, energy, hope, and light as the immediate result. Spiritual growth | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| in every conceivable way. This is a realistic hope. You will increasingly know it to be so | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| left out or covered over in the wishful hope that it would no longer matter and would | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| conscious mind. Energy, feelings of love, light and hope will be your reality. This reality is contained | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| the ultimate you for whom there is no hope. Your true task must begin by exposing all | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the possible loss of the loved one. You hope to avoid all risks, discomforts and pains by | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| the ideal instances of total task fulfillment. I hope that all of you on your path toward | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| turn away from the darkness within you, realistic hope will grow where now there seems to be | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| grow where now there seems to be no hope. Much of this is already happening with you | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| faith in a non-God exists in order to hope for no consequences. When people deny the value | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the existence of God, this too harbors the hope that such confrontation can be avoided, is unnecessary | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| you find the strength to relinquish the secret hope, to cease the false service, to become more | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| talking about. What an illusion it is to hope for self-esteem and security on any basis other | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| thinking is a passive dreaming in which you hope against hope that something will happen to you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| a passive dreaming in which you hope against hope that something will happen to you that is | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| to see that they lie within yourself. You hope that a super-authority will reassure you that it | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| the price you wish to pay in the hope of attaining self-love through others, or placating a | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| a boss, a dictator. By serving them, you hope to gain the superior position yourself. Or you | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| key, my beloved friends. Use this key. We hope that this lecture will have brought you a | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| on whom the spirit world sets so much hope. You are all blessed! 248. THREE PRINCIPLES OF | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| you, giving you courage and love, truth and hope that is always justified. Turn to Him, for | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to help and inspire them. This is the hope of the world in which you live. Everything | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| is, and not a belief in and a hope for what might be illusory wishful thinking. My | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| thinking that this is the best you could hope to experience, but it is not. You may | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| negated. In such instances, the spirit has justified hope that at least part of the task may | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| will bring you the best you could ever hope for, that any distrust of the will of | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| process of self- purification. Where there is no hope, will and incentive are also lacking. Through the | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |