| temporary layer and does not constitute your entire personality. It is here now to be dealt with | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| more you come to know your own entire personality, what you really are and who you are | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| are dealing with the unpleasant side of your personality. By thus recognizing your own reactions and understanding | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| what you are, without building up a different personality for the outside world to appear better. One | 31 SHAME |
| are perfect in all the details of your personality. Thus you approach perfection much faster than you | 31 SHAME |
| is necessary. Such an opening up of your personality is healing. You think of these experiences as | 31 SHAME |
| for their own sake and for their real personality. So I should like you to search within | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| have a fault in one area of your personality, but in another you do not have it | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| is lacking, the unconscious emotions claim that the personality must not be rejected; that rejection must not | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| doubting part is not the whole of your personality and notwithstanding its existence, there is another part | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| present, its special talents, inclinations, characteristics, and the personality trends that brought it to fall are inscribed | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| fluids, each representing a different facet of the personality. Let us talk first about the physical aspects | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| point that is the key to your entire personality and to all your problems. You must find | 36 PRAYER |
| fake and the genuine goodness in the human personality, namely the higher self, the lower self, and | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| against unhappiness acting out of pride? Doesn't the personality often react in emotional outbursts: Why should I | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| usually even in earliest childhood or infancy, every personality forms certain impressions due to environmental influences or | 38 IMAGES |
| cannot remain in the conscious mind. As the personality grows up, your intellectual knowledge contradicts your emotional | 38 IMAGES |
| a deeper level, quite apart from your outer personality. Once you realize that your inner reactions come | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to face with the cowardly part of their personality. This realization may come as quite a shock | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| will be able to integrate it with your personality, so that you will become well rounded. A | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| which may vary in length according to the personality and the inner problems to be solved, the | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| The reason is that in the unconscious the personality creates reactions and conclusions that assume a rigid | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| only because of self-will and pride -- the personality builds defenses. People think that by adopting a | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| self the childish and immature side of the personality, the protective measure seems very good and logical | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| later time. None of it constitutes your real personality. These outer layers are necessary to fulfill your | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| shame are often hidden away, so that the personality is not even aware of them any more | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| When these processes remain hidden, part of your personality cannot grow up with the rest of your | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| regardless of how much the rest of your personality has improved and learned. Your developed personality is | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| your personality has improved and learned. Your developed personality is capable of judging maturely on the intellectual | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| that an image-consciousness is approaching and yet the personality is so reluctant and so full of resistance | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| have no conception of his or her entire personality. You see a picture that is just as | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| -- you feel guilty? The unconscious of the personality will say: I am proud, I know it | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| about other people's opinions makes you violate your personality. You are not true to yourself, and that | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| it is a facet of it. In some personality types the strong desire to be approved by | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| environment, influence, and most of all, of course, personality traits and individual character. Often, no two people | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| in peace, be in God! 43. THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION Greetings in the name | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| lives. There are three basic types of human personality. The first type governs his or her life | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| with the will. In other words, the three personality types are dominated by reason, by emotion, and | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| to find out which type you are. A personality is never completely one-sided; every person is a | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| is more difficult to detect. In the ideal personality, each of the three aspects has a rightful | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| reality. Let us begin with the reason-type, the personality governed predominantly by reason. Those who conduct their | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| and uses willpower unconsciously and erratically. The harmonious personality finds the healthy middle way and uses the | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| overemotional or overintellectual in some aspects of their personality, yet be more balanced, or even tend to | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| a master of the servant. This brings the personality out of focus in a way that can | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| I said, you do not always find a personality with characteristics so predominant that the type is | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| insufficient and does not apply to the whole personality. You may remember the lecture I gave about | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| somatotonics, and the viscerotonics? In other words, the personality types are combined with the physical habitus of | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| way, yet each was a distinct being, a personality in his own right with different talents and | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| cannot function because of other deviations in the personality does not negate the principle. We are not | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| suited for some people. It depends on the personality and its stage of development, but the only | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| farther. It is bound to dissolve if the personality does not learn to love, by cultivating all | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| be its lot. The erotic experience enables the personality to long for union with at least one | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and cannot continue without ill effects. Such a personality will have to make amends for the abuse | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| building it into love. In either case, the personality may have chosen to be more careful. If | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| incarnations always applies to all aspects of the personality. In order to approach this harmony to some | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the three forces remain separate, the unhealthier the personality is. Another frequent combination, particularly in relationships of | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of how much the other side of the personality fears union and is tempted by inertia. This | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| falling in love, or romance. Through eros the personality gets a taste of what the ideal love | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of spiritual development, that is a subterfuge. The personality is looking for the right partner. Either the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| cases like this, the one with an adventurous personality is looking and looking, always finding another part | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| time revealing another facet of his or her personality. However, when it comes to the inner nucleus | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| said before, one displays different facets of one's personality. The more partners you try to share yourself | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| manifest selfishly. Only if and when the whole personality grows and matures harmoniously will sex become integrated | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| kept hidden, and therefore this part of the personality could not grow up. Nothing that remains in | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| direction. It is often forgotten that the human personality has many, many facets and, therefore, one seldom | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| many other facets never manifest in your surface personality. How then can you know more deeply who | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| one direction, consisting of several layers of your personality and both good and bad motives. Then you | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and should happen without unduly shaking up the personality. Your spiritual rebirth can occur only after the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or so hidden in its effects that the personality would never know what causes the effects. But | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| mind. You can say that it is the personality, made up of the conscious and the unconscious | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| does not change quickly, because change in the personality cannot come about quickly. Therefore, the sphere is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is more static and will remain until the personality changes. It is the product of one's life | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| home. The aura is the emanation of the personality and has nothing directly to do with what | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a new way that does not keep the personality unfree and dependent. You must get yourself back | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| development in different respects of his or her personality. There are different basic factors to be considered | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| bring about fulfillment. If the choice of the personality is directed against it, the life plan must | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| establish balance and harmony. The more ignorantly the personality works against the balance and harmony, the more | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| another thing, that the subtle changes in the personality manifest first inside, so that they are not | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| work with your intuition and according to the personality. In one case one subject should be taken | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| this an immaturity. In this part of your personality you have remained a child. Because of your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| be able to make a change in your personality that will eventually change your life. Without exception | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| guilt extends into all areas of the human personality. If all of you who work on this | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| could not mature with the rest of your personality and integrate with warm, loving, giving, unselfish feelings | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| and present errors. On whatever level of your personality the effects exist, you must accept and go | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| a hurry believing one can whisk away deep-rooted personality problems -- problems that require patience and perseverance | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| key to your life. So far, the whole personality may have battled against such recognitions. There is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of thinking, feeling, and reacting exists in every personality, even though consciously you may know a better | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| mature adult grows into it provided the whole personality matures harmoniously and provided that none of the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| unconscious. If they do, only part of the personality will grow while another part -- and a | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| on in the subconscious, which in the adult personality causes all sorts of inner and outer conflicts | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| appear as if they happened involuntarily, without the personality being responsible for them at all. Thus a | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| comes into existence. On the one hand, the personality is yearning for happiness and fulfillment, on the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and fear of punishment exist in every human personality, only the degree varies. The compulsive desire for | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| every human being to some degree. Thus the personality inflicts punishment on itself. This may happen in | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| it was, but in a different sense. The personality unconsciously feels that if such love does exist | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| will love be forthcoming. Remember that the sick personality in which this vicious circle is strong can | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| body represents a certain aspect of the human personality. The higher your development, the more of these | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and trends, in other words, your true, inner personality. As development continues to the highest degree, the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| violent. In all these instances, you violate your personality; you lack the courage to be yourself and | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| body, does that have any feeling and emotional personality? ANSWER: Yes, but in a very different way | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| spiritual entity, as created by God, is a personality and therefore has feelings, reactions, and opinions. But | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| greatly from the unpurified ones of the human personality. Your own higher self, the divine being living | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| way. A similar relationship exists between your unpurified personality and your divine personality. The latter is watching | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| exists between your unpurified personality and your divine personality. The latter is watching and observing your outer | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| The latter is watching and observing your outer personality. It often differs in the opinion of what | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| in the way. The fact that your divine personality does not feel and react in the same | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| react in the same way as your outer personality does not mean, however, that it does not | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| yourself. This you recognize. A part of your personality wishes to avoid doing harm; another part does | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of love. Besides, it is never your whole personality that wishes to commit the selfish act. It | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| you are not pure in this respect, your personality is always divided. When you are one with | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| -- forgiving, good, loving, indulgent. This causes the personality to unconsciously think that one can get away | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to and compensation for the false concept. The personality may grapple between these two concepts, unconsciously trying | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| all its implications, effects and influences on your personality. You may not have recognized its significance on | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and growth. The lower self of the human personality is very shrewd. Be wise to it. As | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| nothing to fear. There is a type of personality so negative in this respect -- though perhaps | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| not. Life force is energy. And in a personality problem of this type, the energy is used | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| everything goes smoothly, although a part of the personality may enjoy it -- usually the conscious side | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| misunderstand and nurture the sick state in a personality. As far as you yourself are concerned, you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| not only ineffective but even harmful for the personality -- at least as long as the person | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| loving yourself brings self-punishment, masochism, denial of your personality. Not loving yourself prohibits your proper functioning. It | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| discuss the role of punishment in the human personality. I discussed your need of self-punishment at length | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| wants to identify with her. While in another personality, with different characteristics, the exact opposite may lead | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| be stronger. Another reason may be that the personality is so cramped, so unfree, that he or | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| influences may encourage the inclination unnecessarily, while the personality may otherwise grow out of it. This is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| knowing yourself in the deeper levels of your personality. Only then will you know the meaning of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| What is the sum total of the human personality? So many factors are involved: temperament, character, the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| The sexual impulse in the infantile and immature personality is entirely self- centered and egotistical; it is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in your soul. Since the immature and primitive personality experiences the sex impulse in an entirely selfish | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it can mature with the rest of the personality. Hence they cannot integrate sexuality with love feelings | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| torn out without grave harm to the human personality -- if such an attempt succeeds at all | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way. Not being aware of what your true personality is in this respect, you may cause further | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| with all the facets of his or her personality. Some are static to a strong degree, but | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| static state only with a part of their personality, manifesting particularly strongly at certain times only. It | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| change from one phase into the other. Your personality will have found its own cosmic rhythm, following | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| can come from the lower nature of the personality. Intuition comes from the superconscious, if you want | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| for development in a different area of the personality. QUESTION: May I ask about the difference and | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| emanating from confusion, ignorance, and wrong motives. Your personality registers extremely accurately all desires, tendencies, and motives | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| requires a price. The immature part of your personality hopes against hope that perhaps after all it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| what you desire with only part of your personality. You will realize that no one but you | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| as simple as all that, for the human personality is a very involved and complicated machinery, if | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| deviation or imperfection in all areas of his personality. Complete imperfection in a human being exists no | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| become fully aware that the part of your personality where you harbor this wrong conclusion indeed exists | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| and the stronger the God-image, the more the personality will be disturbed, because two conflicting needs and | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| anger, fury, and unhappiness. This part of the personality, freely expressed in infancy, remains hidden in the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| your attention on this particular aspect of your personality. You will then have reached a point from | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| acceptance of one's own inadequacies, which enables the personality to learn healthy humility and accept being no | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in the soul. In the unconscious of the personality, the argument goes on: If I were perfect | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and inadequacy. There is also another reaction. The personality cannot and does not want to assume the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of misunderstood happiness. As I said, the human personality finds it more and more impossible to find | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the wrong concept into the right one, the personality only too often struggles against the tide, trying | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |