| In other words, self-alienation is an effect, while self- identification is a cause. Whenever you find an | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| but it will not increase your self-confidence, your self- reliance, your independence, and your self-respect. So reach | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| would rather evade -- doubts, aggression, jealousy, possessiveness, self- centeredness, and self-importance -- in short, everything in | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| healthy struggle to overcome the unhealthy struggle against self- awareness. Learn to discover the signs of your | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| me in order to reach the maximum possible self- honesty? Which of my activities can help me | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| you do not empty yourself of misconception. Therefore, self- knowledge is the prerequisite to love, to spirituality | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to healthy extroversion, it furthers true growth. If self- preoccupation is fruitless, not constructive, and revolves around | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| path that certain facets of the work of self- confrontation resemble mundane psychology. This may be true | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of the subtle overall climate of egocentricity and self- concern to the exclusion of all other interests | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| what degree they still live in inhibition and self- deception. If you discover that you are not | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| with which you come into harmony by truthful self- examination respond according to law, while self-deception and | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| those who work intensely on a path of self- confrontation. It goes beyond isolated scraps of recognition | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| active and rather advanced on a path of self- discovery. But even those who are may need | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| considerable help to reach such deep levels of self- awareness. The discussion on this lecture may offer | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| difficult to face because they contradict one's idealized self- image and bring disapproval and rejection. But they | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| a mature individual, the pleasure drive is not self- centered and excluding. Hence, it cannot be antisocial | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| way appropriate for a child. Children are antisocial, self- centered, and therefore excluding. Emotions that remain fixed | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Here, too, it was first a question of self- preservation rather than a matter of inner feeling | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| to unconscious divisions. In the course of your self- exploration, you find areas within which completely contradict | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| is divided within by unrealistic concepts, wrong conclusions, self- centered and infantile pursuits, limited outlooks, lack of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| you live in better, but will deepen your self- understanding. Identical processes are at work in all | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| only gradually become noticeable, after extensive progress in self- awareness. Tension, frustration, discontent, inexplicable hostility, overreaction -- | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the entity becomes strong enough not to fear self- surrender, and wise enough not to do so | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| so as not to risk the danger of self- forgetting. This is a much more fundamental aspect | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| hurt child within yourself, then your independence and self- respect should consistently grow and give you sufficient | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| Of course, there are also other aspects of self- fulfillment. You may be unaware of certain potentials | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| life. When you understand that self hood and self- government are synonymous with following the voice and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| manifest. This does not mean absolving yourself from self- responsibility, rather, you are responsible for opening the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the same way with God's will and self-government. Self- government does not mean self will. When the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| A similar confusion exists concerning self-centeredness versus other-centeredness. Self- centeredness can be childish self-importance in which you | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| of you who persevere in the task of self- finding. Be blessed. Receive the warm strength flowing | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| discover that you are a free creature with self- responsibility. Part of this is the willingness and | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| cannot accept your limitations, you do not accept self- responsibility, therefore you cannot step across the fence | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| loser. Being a loser means to be unselfish, self- sacrificing, good, kind, and considerate. Some people adopt | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| living. In order to realize personal expansion and self- expression with its concomitant bliss, it is necessary | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| a feeling that I have a fear of self- responsibility. Is that true? ANSWER: Yes, indeed. This | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| show the following: Because you are afraid of self- responsibility, you are constantly dependent on circumstances outside | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| that each individual, through the process of personal self- confrontation and self-realization, gradually changes the inner orientation | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| feels no pang or conflict about either. The self- alienated person experiences both desire and fulfillment as | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| Nor can the ego-mind find the balance between self- assertion and giving in, between giving and receiving | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| main reasons for all resistance and fear of self- facing. Often, these cruel aspects can be found | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| destructive way of embracing pain, or a masochistic, self- punishing element that in itself harbors and perpetuates | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| one lacks the awareness that the effect was self- created. Separation between cause and effect in one's | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| vast universe, and feeling one's self to be self- governing, autonomous. The principle of cycles or circles | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| back to the point of departure through the self- created chain reaction until you reach the level | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| destiny because your fears and misconceptions lead to self- alienation and escape from life, then a conflict | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| human life, some are positively and some negatively self- perpetuating. Where they work positively, everything goes smoothly | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| of the ego is understandable and even healthy self- protection. It is understandable then, my friends, that | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| versus a wrong, such appeasement robs you of self- respect and you fight against that. Whether you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| opposes one side and clings to the other, self- realization or liberation -- that is, the unitive | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| cannot come about any other way than through self- realization. Self-realization means shedding the layers of error | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| joy, since you have the mistaken idea that self- realization must automatically mean deprivation and self-sacrifice. If | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| attitude of being against others. It implies that self- enhancement can only exist at the expense of | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| that you have within you the possibilities for self- fulfillment, the only way you can conceive of | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| body and soul is an inevitable product of self- realization. It is erroneous to believe that the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| deny themselves the experience of spontaneously discovering independent, self- responsible concepts by which one can conduct a | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| as one thinks fear is the obstacle to self- responsible inner conduct, the fear will not vanish | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| It is what I often referred to as self- dramatization. This may happen even within oneself and | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| you have truly approached the threshold to self-realization. Self- realization will become a gradual process, where you | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| perhaps with a different approach, the meaning of self- realization: self-realization means to bring out into reality | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| force of the power, and the ideas become self- perpetuating. They find their outer manifestation in the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to humans is, as we know, in reality self- produced. It is a reflection of what already | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| at other times, is what may be called self- alienation, or lack of aliveness, or disconnectedness. It | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the hitherto unacceptable, proportionately increases his or her self- respect and sense of adequacy. You increase your | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to use its faculties of strength, selfhood, and self- responsibility. Or it can take the form of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the personality's stubborn refusal and false ideas. All self- destruction is a slow form of suicide. Death | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| be able to make room for differences in self- expression. You may also misinterpret the actual rejection | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| immature, unrealistic tendencies also frequently strive away from self- responsibility, deny any sort of frustration, want to | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the deepest level. However, even right and healthy self- interest almost always interferes with the egotistical self-interests | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| itself is the most blissful experience imaginable. All self- deceptions must be eliminated before this truth can | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of humankind, when human beings were little more self- aware than animals, they freely acted out these | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| a social conscience developed from the instinct of self- preservation. But mere expedience dictates this kind of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| realm of feelings to stay safe from its self- perpetuating negative creativity, they also erect a barricade | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| erect a barricade around the divine kernel, the self- perpetuating positive creative source. Nevertheless, each entity must | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| negative reaction to all this only because your self- perception has been faulty. You may also resist | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| your will, your commitment to the process of self- realization, your honesty in seeing and facing the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| diminishes and then stops. The totally integrated and self- realized entity -- who is, of course, way | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| expanding vistas and possibilities of blissful being and self- expression. Within this multitude of creative possibilities boredom | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| You will then comprehend the true meaning of self- responsibility. Here I have given you a brief | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| can begin only after a certain degree of self- knowledge has been obtained; after certain basic resistances | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| these laws and apply them to itself. As self- deception ceases, a deep relaxation sets in, a | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| universal life center; then the convergence occurs. Total self- realization makes the two one. The personality center | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| when they are not fulfilled. Healthy, openly expressed self- assertion and flexible giving in constitute a balance | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| constitute a balance, which is disturbed by immature self- centeredness. The balance will be effortlessly achieved when | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| person can give up the attitude that removes self- respect, a new sense of self and of | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| not see how the undesirable life situation is self- produced -- this notion may even seem preposterous | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| do people say, It is right to be self- assertive, for example, when they merely cover up | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| close up. They become clogged. The process of self- realization thus also means opening up the centers | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| think or feel. A good part of any self- development therefore always consists of increasing your sense | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| or otherwise -- every meditation, every self-examination and self- confrontation, should always aim to eliminate false concepts | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| regarding their self-esteem, which is of fundamental importance. Self- esteem, self-liking, or self-value -- whatever you call | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| areas of your life, but it still indicates self- rejection. All these manifestations indicate self-rejection, self-dislike. It | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| and even more so to life that is self- conscious. The power of thought, of will, of | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| with self-indulgence, and honest self-confrontation need not bring self- loathing. You can find peace only when you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| This takes on many forms and applies to self- imitation as well. It is a process of | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| You hope to become a truly self-accepting and self- respecting human being without giving up what truly | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| groping to find the right measure of self-discipline, self- facing, and summoning your goodwill to see the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| chain reaction. What are the elements that determine self- possession? There are several, and we cannot examine | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and thus blindly rebels, there is again no self- possession. You lose yourself when you follow either | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| this pathwork, we have found the concept of self- created circumstances to be true in many ways | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| overaggressive. Only then will you no longer confuse self- assertion with hostility, or flexible compromise with unhealthy | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| of life, can be attained only through personal self- confrontation, never through theoretical speculation. You must begin | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| from an outer self-aggrandizement to a hidden inner self- deprecation. When the destructive infant reveals itself, one | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| spiritual pride and vanity as well as false self- humiliation and shame disappear. Through the steady activation | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Thus the negativity is prevented from starting the self- perpetuating cycle. It is confronted right at the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| to realize their potential for deeper joy and self- expression. Then the dark nights will become more | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| contrary. This approach conciliates the attitudes of adult self- responsibility that takes action by facing the self | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| or blaming others, but not feeling hopeless and self- rejecting about them either. This seems like a | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| turn into love, cruelty into healthy aggression and self- assertion, stagnation into joy and pleasure. This is | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| contrary of their apprehensive expectation: their self-respect and self- liking will increase. So this is, my friends | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| trait but at the tremendous cost of guilt, self- deprivation, insecurity, and fear of not being able | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| create mutual love, develop on the path of self- realization, this law of mutuality applies to all | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| less blaming and accusing of others. Self-blame and self- accusation may seem to have increased, however, for | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| the truth of the momentary state, pretense, dishonesty, self- deception, false ideas, negation of the beauty of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the personality. The negative attitudes create self-hate, the self- hate increases hate for and distrust of others | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| they are is a profound manifestation of denying self- responsibility and of dependency. In effect, you say | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| blame from a person who still strongly denies self- responsibility and therefore aggrandizes his or her self-righteous | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of Illusion I said that the path of self- realization and unification contains many junctures where it | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| for outside of yourself. This must begin with self- responsibility. If you remain stuck on blaming your | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| than accept the hope, light, and freedom of self- responsibility. This indicates the emotional immaturity of humanity | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| grows into manifest reality and fact, resulting in self- fulfillment and the realization of the best within | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| talents are, will be sensed as self-caused and self- wanted, sometimes wisely, sometimes destructively. Exactly the same | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| how the ego uses these traits to avoid self- transcendence. The ego fears losing its present state | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| except to the few people who reach full self- realization, it has no name. I have spoken | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| concisely. But this must not be done in self- delusion and by superimposing positive intent over unconscious | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| a battle of blame, self-justification, helplessness, self-rejection and self- doubt. You cannot help but hook others, with | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| placing of guilt on others makes their true self- revelation almost impossible; it implies that if they | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| self. To do this, you must eliminate your self- deceptions and pretenses. They always block the way | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| creative expansion without paying the price of strictest self- confrontation. It is false when you do not | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you discipline yourself. Of course, the resistance to self- discipline, the need to make disorder in your | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| out. Don't you see that acting out refutes self- responsibility as much as total denial does? You | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and without playing your negative games. This real self- assertion stems from the guilt-free state that follows | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| you miss it. Yet as you pursue that self- expression, you experience an inexplicable resistance to follow | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| these universal aspects into his or her own self- expression. You remain totally true to yourself when | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| must be fought for every time. You need self- discipline to remind yourself. Although resistance is gone | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| and self discipline toward making the deeper knowledge self- perpetuating, leads to ultimate fulfillment. Without this as | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| speak about a historical progression in terms of self- responsibility. In ancient times, human beings experienced themselves | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| used on your own self. The truth of self- responsibility can be practiced not as a punitive | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| against your shortcomings is always correlated with a self- devastating guilt. And the self-devastating guilt is correlated | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| they become stronger and stronger. They are self-perpetuating, self- feeding, self-augmenting in ever-increasing speed and momentum; self-revolving | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| it differently, the false reality, the lack of self- awareness, creates a fragmentation and a disconnectedness. However | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| who makes a total commitment to truth, to self- facing, to self-purification, to giving up all defenses | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| now identify with your hopelessness. When you feel self- rejecting, guilty and bad, it is important to | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| a plant. The organisms beneath the state of self- awareness have nevertheless in-built patterns of creation, self-creation | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| which begins at the human level. What does self- awareness mean? Awareness of I am, I exist | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self. It is destructive simply in refusing total self- surrender to the divine consciousness and divine will | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| when using magic to coddle your laziness and self- indulgence. The same is true of science or | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| to move into the next phase of being self- responsible and establishing their own channel, but are | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to the group without losing selfhood, autonomy, and self- responsibility. They do not lose privacy, the right | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Every seed contains the plan of its ultimate self- evolution and fulfillment. This plan always follows its | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| public opinion, give up the facade and the self- interest that comes from the lower self, the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| balance comes only through the arduous path of self- purification. Then it comes as a gratuitous byproduct | 228 BALANCE |
| will then prove not so difficult at all. Self- responsibility seems difficult, but is not once the | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| will open the heart. The fully autonomous, self-responsible, self- actualizing man and woman have nothing to fear | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| will prevent the formation of masks and start self- purification early. Such is the groundwork for all | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| in finding the fine balance between freedom and self- discipline. This applies equally to learning and education | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| exist relates to the problem of values and self- identification. Fundamentally, two value systems govern human beings | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| feelings and intentionalities cause a perpetual flickering of self- defeating, short circuiting actions which interfere with each | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| self-exposure and purification will you gain sufficient initial self- esteem to expose your devastating belief in your | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| exists without becoming an extreme position of punitive self- righteousness. Expanding, giving, joyful and vigorous expressions of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| your feelings that you had denied: pain, hate, self- rejection, guilt, rage, all shades of fear and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| your selfwill. This attitude gives immense self-confidence and self- reliance that constant obedience to your selfwill could | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| intent and attitude. Each level of consciousness, each self- expression, each emotion, each expression of will, everything | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| to growing. If this deep sincere commitment to self- discipline is lacking, the sexual force cannot be | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| seek the false solution to self-love, which is self- indulgence and blaming others. You all know on | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| creates your self-infringement, the less you find true self- love and liberation. As you accept the narrow | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| is too ecstatic. Inside, a tiny voice of self- hate still proclaims that you do not deserve | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| your potential to realize more of divine life, self- expression, creative living, the unfoldment of what is | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| put self-interest out of the way. For if self- interest comes first, the channel is naturally blocked | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| being sinful, my surge for individuality, autonomy and self- expression being sinful. I would never have the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| of faith rather than denial, you come to self- acceptance, self-forgiveness. Therefore you experience that God has | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| in the way of the unfoldment of the self- realized person. The new society, of which you | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| more you will give up your personal pride, self- interest, small opportunism -- which all amounts to | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the beginning, to have scholarships until they become self- sustaining. This lecture goes, of course, way beyond | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| embedded intentionality in the woman's psyche. Women refused self- responsibility on all levels for the longest time | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| If you consider the moral indignation, the moral self- righteousness of men and women toward those who | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| need to be. The new-age woman combines independence, self- responsibility, full-fledged adulthood with the softness and yieldingness | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| to present yourself in totality, without any false self- projections. You must understand that to whatever degree | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| limited reality must include a process of stringent self- work, such as the pathwork offers. Progress in | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| You can see in your world how two self- wills clashing create war on a small or | 254 SURRENDER |
| who is far from pursuing any path of self- confrontation, who ignores even the possibility of inner | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| questions. Are you really willing to assume full self- responsibility, with all that this implies? Are you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| this understanding and through your ever-intensified efforts toward self- exposure and communication with your immediate circle of | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| you many times how to do this. The self- condemnation that so often accompanies insight into your | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| have too big a stake in your egotistic self- righteousness. However, if you feel personally humiliated by | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| incentive away to work on any process of self- purification. Where there is no hope, will and | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |