| Hopes.......................20 | |
| depressed. It is extremely important for anyone who hopes to accomplish in one life as much as | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| deeply hidden, which wishes to escape living. It hopes to get a return from life without investment | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| a price. The immature part of your personality hopes against hope that perhaps after all it will | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| some power and admiration -- or so one hopes. Whereas in kleptomania, the acquisition of things has | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| defense mechanism at work the child in you hopes and fights for receiving what you cannot possibly | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| to give a meaningful answer. In such vague hopes and endeavors people, often unconsciously, find themselves in | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| leave it behind in the past. Your vague hopes for the future and the unpleasant, unfulfilled state | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| barricade is that deep in one's soul one hopes against hope that it is possible to remain | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| with the idealized self-image. With these the person hopes to defend against what he or she is | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| -- instead of strengthening them as one unconsciously hopes -- there is panic. One fights for one's | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| of believing that you cannot have it, nevertheless hopes for fate to deliver you from your deprivation | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| from your deprivation. So you have fears and hopes, all based on false premises. You even fear | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| which you misuse in directing your attention and hopes to the dualistic plane, with its tightly held | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| from the undesirable condition or experience, the entity hopes to avoid and refuse it -- thereby avoiding | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and opinions, impressions and reactions, concepts and ideas, hopes and fears. Collective, oversimplified labels are supposed to | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| yours -- no matter what you pin your hopes on. You may flock to this or that | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| realistic expectation. You pin so much on false hopes, my friends -- so much! You actually invest | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| best energies into neurotic solutions based on unrealizable hopes or on sheer illusion. But there exists a | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| dreams, aspirations, feelings, fears, goals, yearnings, insecurities, and hopes. The world of the mind and ideas is | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| experience that it will by far surpass your hopes and visualizations in happiness and fulfillment. Since your | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Hoping......................14 | |
| not take command of your ship, believing and hoping -- again unconsciously -- that God or fate | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| is healthier than not seeing the issues clearly, hoping to relinquish only a tiny bit of your | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| of reenacting the play, so to speak, only hoping that this time it will be different. And | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the soul. If people resort to several means, hoping to be guarded fully without risking anything, they | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Begin to see how you all sit back, hoping for a comfortable spirituality that leaves out your | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a primary reaction, free of the illusion of hoping to bring gratification for repressed needs, you are | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you. This means first understanding yourself rather than hoping to bring out the real self by a | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and decay. While they strain into the future, hoping for fulfillment, they simultaneously stem against the tide | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| a person wants to skirt around this issue, hoping it can be avoided because it is so | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| in order to turn in the wrong direction, hoping against hope to find salvation without meeting yourself | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| more you will capitalize on that position, always hoping that your resentful, blaming self-pity and helplessness will | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Some of you may have tried other approaches, hoping to bypass this highly unpleasant task, but real | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| are stuck, whether you deceive yourself -- perhaps hoping that you can avoid dealing with certain unpleasant | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| You can pursue this thought and discover yourself hoping, in a very subtle way, that someone will | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Horizon.....................16 | |
| at one with yourself. This will widen your horizon and raise your consciousness to the necessary maturity | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| if outer obstacles are not yet on the horizon, you may inwardly feel ill at ease, guilty | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| your commonality with all others will widen your horizon considerably; it will give you a new outlook | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| infinitely more subtle and has a much wider horizon than the human language. On the other hand | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| truth is split, incompatible aspects appear on the horizon, and create confusion. The two examples I have | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| life afresh so as to truly widen your horizon and your ability to experience life as fully | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| question your own taboos, you cannot widen the horizon of your life and discover that there are | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| The more you embrace reality and widen your horizon, the more you break through the barrier which | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| pain would cease, solutions would appear on the horizon even to problems which had hitherto seemed absolutely | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| appear without solutions. Solutions can appear on the horizon only in exact proportion to your facing in | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| It is a sign that could widen your horizon in thinking about, and inwardly experiencing, new boundaries | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| you can broaden your vision and expand your horizon. For you still experience like an infant who | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| need be so, you begin to expand the horizon of your concepts, of your mental grasp. This | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the exact degree you wish to expand the horizon, or the frontiers, of your concepts. By concepts | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| helpful for everyone. This will open a new horizon for you. The love and the blessings I | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| does the other positive polarity appear on the horizon and creates duality. In that phase, duality is | 254 SURRENDER |
| Horizons....................6 | |
| want it and are ready to consider new horizons and possibilities that you had never thought of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| to where it is possible to widen one's horizons, according to the potentials of each of you | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| person; it makes you grow and expand your horizons. A false, dramatized hurt can never accomplish this | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| pleasure, movement and unfoldment, new adventure and new horizons of being. Life means increasing one's potentials as | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| seem to be. As consciousness is raised, new horizons appear; effects are seen to be connected to | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a wide open field that reaches the infinite horizons of divine possibilities and becomes ever more available | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Horizontal..................3 | |
| cross demonstrates this by the two bars, one horizontal, one vertical, indicating two opposing directions. As long | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| need or feeling. Displacement, as discussed here, is horizontal, as it were. One layer covers the other | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| Compulsiveness is the result of both vertical and horizontal shifts. The intensity of preoccupation resulting from such | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| Hormones....................5 | |
| is the reason we have two kinds of hormones? ANSWER: The male and female hormones are a | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| kinds of hormones? ANSWER: The male and female hormones are a physical aspect of this entire subject | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| entire subject. In fact, both sexes have both hormones. A woman could not live without male hormones | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| hormones. A woman could not live without male hormones and a man without female hormones. This physical | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| without male hormones and a man without female hormones. This physical manifestation is a proof of both | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Horrible....................6 | |
| you were apprehensive about, and what seemed disproportionately horrible as you stood before it, ceased to be | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| way: If I have destructive instincts, I am horrible and cannot like or respect myself. Since this | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| human beings erroneously assume to be sad or horrible. This is no more true of death than | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| also express the attitude that the world is horrible, everyone is bad and against me, it is | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| true self as if it were the most horrible fate in the world. If the illusion about | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| this still happens, the majority considers it a horrible crime, rather than condoning it. The human race's | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Horror......................6 | |
| get it, or to protect yourself from the horror of not getting it. I have often mentioned | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| admit that the experience is no longer a horror. The horror therefore must have been unreal, for | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the experience is no longer a horror. The horror therefore must have been unreal, for a reality | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| facing your destructive side will not be the horror it now seems. You will see that it | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of painful feelings is a bottomless pit of horror and annihilation. Thus you waste your life energies | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| area that you most dread. There is no horror that does not bear the golden point within | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Horse.......................4 | |
| human being, for instance. That a nice gentle horse becomes the lowest type of human being, such | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| can't imagine. ANSWER: No, you cannot say one horse turns into a human being. That is not | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| aspects of the human inner makeup. Perhaps one horse -- though this is but a rough explanation | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| sense of the word. Coming off your high horse is healthy; and health, emotional or otherwise, must | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |