| human beings are almost always off-center; their planet personality is not exposed to and is out of | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| vision of the spiritual planet. At times, the personality center moves slightly toward the spiritual center's field | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| within itself, as it were. At times the personality center moves into, at other times out of | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Total self- realization makes the two one. The personality center is first parallel, covered, charged, enlivened by | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| its light can no longer shine upon the personality and fill it with its energy. Let me | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| may have a temporarily debilitating effect on the personality. The former enable you to recognize the most | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| concealed behind it. It is as though your personality, unwilling to face up to the real guilt | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| life is exactly what the conscious and unconscious personality produces. No matter how undesirable the result is | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| gauge to what may be amiss within the personality, we have found a significant shortcut. One may | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| a clear vision of how the healthy, productive personality would function, as opposed to the past destructive | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| the past destructive patterns. Although the outer ego personality, with its will and intelligence, must initiate these | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| way. Thus the function of the conscious ego personality is double: (1) It must initiate the change | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| is a spontaneous expression of a warm, loving personality who wants to connect with others and is | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| other side of the coin. In a healthy personality it is the basic self-reliance that enables the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| view of the entire structure of the human personality. For this, some recapitulation is necessary. The life | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| contexts that every function and organ in the personality exists in the physical body as well as | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the universal consciousness resides outside as a distinct personality, far away in heaven. A much more advanced | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| exactly the same immutable lawfulness as the human personality does. The relationship of every cell- consciousness to | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| relationship to humanity. To the degree that the personality is in a state of what we call | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| not happen arbitrarily or independently of your whole personality. Your wrong ideas, false fears, and unnecessary defenses | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| fixed in the conviction that life and your personality traits are static and must remain that way | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| the whole story, my friends. Underneath all these personality traits you believe are fixed, final things, the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| create a new and different life expression and personality. You see, as long as you ignore the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| new energies, new feelings. All of this is personality change. Without your being quite aware of it | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of inner direction can only happen when the personality is truly and genuinely constructive without hidden destructiveness | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| that can be overcome only when the total personality attains harmony with the energy streamings of cosmic | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| pleasure means on all levels of the human personality. On the physical level: physical health and well-being | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| its stake only into the outer, conscious ego personality and completely disregards, ignores, and rejects the Universal | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| chase for an illusory goal that leaves the personality not only exhausted, but also more and more | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| go of itself. Pleasure is unrealizable when the personality is bound to the ego in selfwill, pride | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and so does not know it exists. The personality does not know the nature of its own | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| its cherished prejudices and illusions. Yet your total personality must cooperate and invest in stirring up your | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| gradually you incorporate the new skill into your personality. The acquisition of a new mastery always means | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| All the while, the underlying message of the personality is, in effect: I refuse to suffer any | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| inner and outer difficulties. Some aspects of your personality are in truth; others, in error and distortion | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| destructiveness is totally dominant in their manifest human personality, no pangs of conscience exist. A temporary negative | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| is the disunity, where one aspect of the personality strives toward love, truth, integration with the whole | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| in the service of evil, but the total personality rejects evil. Thus a compromise has been found | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| elsewhere. One is that three fundamental layers of personality must be involved if meditation is to be | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| is to be truly effective. These three fundamental personality levels we may call: (1) the conscious ego | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| untrue, with the result that secretly the whole personality feels fraudulent and terrified of exposure. It is | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| universal powers that come into play wherever the personality is sufficiently free, positive, open, but the unfree | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| place. Several things begin to happen within your personality, my friends. In the first place, your conscious | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| possible by the spiritual influx from the deeper personality that has to be deliberately activated. Here the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| no longer take refuge from its message. The personality must see eventually that all eruptions, breakdowns, crises | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| honesty with the self becomes predominant in the personality. True inner looking and deep concern with the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| consequent blessing, strength, and growing wholeness of the personality cannot be put into words. You want ideal | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| know, a relatively small part of their total personality. This limitation is, of course, a terrible loss | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| do greater harm to the whole of your personality, to your manifest spirituality, than you realize. For | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| for each of the various levels of the personality. What may be true on one level for | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| would I want different in myself, in my personality? How would I like it to be different | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| have wrought a tremendous change in your entire personality, regardless of how negative, immature, or destructive the | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| may even exist in some areas of the personality, with people who are quite aware of their | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| negativities and negation in other areas of their personality. So we have two manifestations. Some people are | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| emphasize again, we are not dealing here with personality types -- one person falling into the former | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| unity and growth, fulfillment and health of the personality, so that unconscious negation springs from the best | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| therefore necessary to keep evaluation shelved until the personality is aware of itself and its various voices | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| so intense that the change wrought in the personality is more meaningful than any outer change could | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| cross-purposes with the affirmative, conscious striving of the personality. The negative attitudes create self-hate, the self- hate | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the surface. It is up to the conscious personality to make the best of these periods. The | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| of the outer body. In this state, the personality is unable to receive the abundance of universal | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| more undesirable, painful life experience, against which the personality defends itself by closing up, by building a | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| accompanying destructive emotions and thoughts. More specifically, the personality invariably feels unjustly victimized, blames others or life | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the third, and only minor aspects of their personality remain undeveloped. With most people it is the | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| any difficulties and therefore cannot effectively assert your personality. Whatever the reasons may be, the irrational hate | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| to manifest in some way, even if the personality refrains from active deeds. Holding back from loving | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| creation. It is not simply dependent on the personality of an entity. It permeates everything that exists | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| think of consciousness as exclusively a byproduct of personality, that it can exist only in human form | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| every attitude known in creation, every aspect of personality is just one of many manifestations of consciousness | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all need to be incorporated into the manifesting personality. Only then can purification, harmonizing, and enrichment of | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| degree that struggle and tension exist in a personality, the various aspects of consciousness will be at | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| sense of self leads to despair. If the personality blindly believes it actually is nothing but its | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you may safely identify. To the degree the personality awakens and self-consciousness is gained, such decisions and | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| so liberating to acknowledge the worst in your personality after having battled the ever-present resistance to do | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| than what you fear you are. The human personality is often on the brink of wanting to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| repressed terror has additional adverse effects on the personality, which becomes more and more alienated from its | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| against the stagnation. It is as though the personality fought hard against the stagnation by superimposing compulsive | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| and capacity for pleasure can manifest in your personality. But if you guard against one expression of | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| experienced, the more false needs will fill the personality which then is bound to make demands on | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| states of consciousness exist in the still disunited personality. The less self-awareness human beings achieve, the less | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| is the pathwork. All these aspects of the personality can be conscious or unconscious to varying degrees | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| -- are the following aspects of the human personality: (1) the level of mind and thought (2 | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| what the different approaches to the four different personality levels are. (1) The Level of Mind and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| for each of the four aspects of the personality. You have to work differently with the level | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| stagnate on an unconscious level and prevent the personality from functioning in a healthy way, from having | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| of negative feelings. Most of the time the personality is entirely unaware of this consequence. People see | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| meditation can be as varied as the human personality or life experience. Meditation is too vast a | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| human thinking as a level of the human personality. This is the level of life experience. Generally | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| conclusively symptomatic of the inner state of the personality. Our path uses this most important and truthful | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| of meditation, of course. Each level of your personality can, at various stages in your development, use | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| available for eliminating the negative aspects in your personality: more of the unreality, and more of the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| go of this intent is not maintained, the personality feels threatened: the child equates giving up the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| with one or the other of the various personality aspects -- as if one would be good | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the deepest well within you to infuse your personality. However, this force must not be used to | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| to permeate the other levels of the human personality. The various concepts of what evil is and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| out of this conflict. One part of the personality resists the truth that these negative feelings and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| crisis may again be avoided for awhile; the personality may stagnate for long periods. But when the | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| continues to block the movement of the whole personality which becomes confused, blind and caught in destructively | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| can be avoided. So it is with a personality -- and such extrication depends entirely on the | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| determination of the person in question. If the personality is too entangled because it has been resisting | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| part. Hence, giving up this part of the personality appears hazardous, dangerous, and annihilating. The question then | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| natural possession, until it becomes part of the personality, second nature, so to speak. The ego's task | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| a bit of growing and groping before the personality can accept all feelings, experiencing and handling them | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| to integrate the experience with the conscious ego personality. Still another may discover an ability to express | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| The integration of this new faculty into the personality is the expansion I talked about in the | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| juncture, at least in a part of your personality: you see, know, understand, and fully experience pain | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| be brought face to face, and the conscious personality shall make the final decision. We have discussed | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the deepest problems. It is as though the personality needed this outer grace, this helping hand. For | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| recognize and deal with various aspects of your personality. Some of these are in disharmony with your | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| within you is a part of your total personality. Your intrinsic fear of bridging the gap between | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| a clear distinction between stagnant, residual feelings the personality is unaware of holding back, and the personality's | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| allowed to manifest; that is why all other personality levels must align with the spirit's innate nature | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| harm can be done. Every level of the personality requires a different approach. Also, before certain exercises | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| speak. Furthermore, take into consideration that every human personality has a depth of which he or she | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| the narrow confines of his or her own personality, and receive access to other realms and to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| done varies greatly and is dependent on the personality and on the predisposition, prejudices, and blocks of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| solid and cannot be maintained unless the total personality is included. Since human beings shy away from | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| let you gloss over those aspects of your personality you like least or even dislike outright. Your | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| deepest longing? The desire is false when your personality wishes love and fulfillment, perfection and happiness, or | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| misinterpreted by the negative, greedy, ungiving and demanding personality, confusion sets in. The longing is then put | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| illusion, because true spiritual bliss encompasses the total personality. The personality must therefore learn to endure a | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| true spiritual bliss encompasses the total personality. The personality must therefore learn to endure a state of | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| transcended. Then, and then only, can the human personality function in a blissful state. Your longing to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| The difficulty exists only to the degree the personality has a stake in avoiding aspects of the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| this guilt cannot be wiped out unless the personality deals directly with the darkness within. Then sacrifice | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| contrary to other more developed aspects of your personality -- it is absolutely necessary for every aspect | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| lower natures in check. Only when the human personality became capable of using self-control could the next | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| this in his outer life; another type of personality misreads the message and applies it only to | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| significance in the total expression of the human personality, and its importance in the self-creating process. Self-awareness | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| a state. To create a new state of personality, soul movements must flow forth. Like the wind | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| life inwardly and outwardly, the changing of your personality -- the acting out, the desire to blame | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| fulfillment exist because the infant within the adult personality still seeks its own mode of fulfillment. It | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| own momentum like a stream which the human personality has to learn to follow. Whatever exists within | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| reveals one's whole character with all one's attitudes, personality and ego trends, problems and impurities, as well | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| small, apparently insignificant attitude existing in the human personality reappears symbolically in one's sexual expression. The way | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| The greatest pain and dissonance in the human personality exists not only because of the split between | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| of the split between the levels of the personality, but also between cause and effect. Nothing is | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| do otherwise. The evil is denied and the personality may then try to force the sexual drive | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| more split off from the rest of the personality. The split among the levels creates further short-circuits | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| feel, assume and intend on layers of your personality that are not immediately accessible. Your unconscious motives | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| and your faculties, my friends. For your ego personality, as it expresses itself now, is but an | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| aspect, or several isolated aspects, of your total personality. A much larger, fuller and more purified part | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| fuller and more purified part of your total personality, or real self, does not manifest overtly. As | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| manifest overtly. As I have often mentioned, that personality consists of aspects of consciousness. The manifestation of | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |