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 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

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