| Self-destructive............26 | |
| may be constituted so that the self-punishing and self-destructive forces, put in motion by wrong motives, affect | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| motives in addition to healthy and conscious ones. Self-destructive and self-punishing forces, brought forth by the psyche | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| necessarily mean evil or wicked. It can be self-destructive, life-defeating; it can be guilt or fear. But | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong channels and finally become destructive -- even self-destructive. Much more could be said about the necessity | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| have. This is because of the absence of self-destructive tendencies or the negative functioning of the inner | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| will does not call it forth due to self-destructive tendencies. Self-destructiveness will always know how to find | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| force is completely negated. It is a very self-destructive and damaging way of coping with death. QUESTION | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| In this nucleus of division, repression, and therefore self-destructive activities and undesired results, you are caught as | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| we avoided the crass term of sin. Your self-destructive guilt feelings on the one hand, and your | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| tenet that produces a painful result, are inherently self-destructive. If this is enjoyed on some level of | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| healthy and productive pleasure is also destructive or self-destructive pleasure. The latter can't always be recognized as | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| away from the word sin because it encourages self-destructive and unproductive guilt. Instead I concentrate on the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| of yourself in this respect, your rigid, uncompromising, self-destructive severity which is way out of proportion. All | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| freedom of choice, commitment is not a hazardous, self-destructive process, not a blind compulsion or drive, but | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| defect does not permit you to abandon a self-destructive, self-denying attitude? State clearly that you wish to | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| and give up a self-centered, selfish, self-pitying, or self-destructive attitude, fear of self automatically decreases. Something new | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| relief and replenishment -- is compelled to pursue self-destructive aims. Every act of self-destructiveness is a gesture | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| is exclusively a rebellion against authority, or a self-destructive maneuver against a secure, safe life. The personality's | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| my life if I can find another, not self-destructive way to express and obtain them. The very | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you may believe awareness of a totally irrational, self-destructive will to negate what is desirable does not | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| and influences of hidden attitudes. Yet to assume self-destructive, self-eroding guilt about hidden destructiveness makes matters so | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| many years ago. Guilt must also lead to self-destructive acts; it must cause weakness, anxiety, lack of | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| that you are all bad. This manifests in self-destructive patterns you do not understand, and you cannot | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the line of least resistance, and thus becoming self-destructive. Or, conversely, that self-discipline means the dullness of | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| act destructively toward their environment or themselves. Children's self-destructive acts must be discouraged by their elders. This | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| is infinitely more important than having to own self-destructive devices and impairment of your divine nature. These | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Self-destructively..........4 | |
| current. That will is often used negatively and self-destructively is something else again. And also, the fact | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| in the sense of the inner will functioning self-destructively in some manner. Once you find the reason | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you are adequately and realistically defended, rather than self-destructively and unrealistically. The realistic and adequate defense against | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| can be firm with yourself, as opposed to self-destructively and unlovingly devaluing yourself, you can also be | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Self-destructiveness........18 | |
| you will automatically eliminate a certain degree of self-destructiveness. I realize that those friends who are not | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| about the basic vicious circle, that self-punishment and self-destructiveness are very strong factors in the human makeup | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you. In this lecture I wanted to explain self-destructiveness in more fundamental terms, since we are approaching | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| no matter how hard you find it, if self-destructiveness is not abnormally strong, you will hold on | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| not call it forth due to self-destructive tendencies. Self-destructiveness will always know how to find destructiveness. If | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| because it has been touched off by the self-destructiveness. These are the seemingly mysterious, but actually very | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| have gone into the subject of self-punishment and self-destructiveness before, but I will extend it a little | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| negation of what they long for most. This self-destructiveness can be found on all levels. It manifests | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and negativity -- both of which lead to self-destructiveness -- is altogether different from a healthy, strong | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| misleading and may encourage false self-sacrifice, defeatism, and self-destructiveness. You will find this point only after reaching | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| find that self-punishment is due to guilt. The self-destructiveness derives from a certain inability to cope with | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| observe them -- whether through ignorance or deliberate self-destructiveness -- the more you move away from that | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| compelled to pursue self-destructive aims. Every act of self-destructiveness is a gesture of courting death, of walking | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| because, as mentioned before, such immature rebellion and self-destructiveness actually exist as well. But they are hardly | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| that unselfishness can be a sick manifestation of self-destructiveness and weakness -- exploiting others through self-enslavement, just | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| your parents. You do realize that this spiteful self-destructiveness has absolutely no benefit for you, yet you | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| nucleus that creates their unhappiness, their guilt and self-destructiveness, but cannot find the way out, will find | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| and self-hate, self-hate creates negative behavior patterns and self-destructiveness. All these emotions, although interconnected, are as different | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Self-detection..............1 | |
| service of escaping, instead of being used for self-detection and understanding the meaning of destructive elements. All | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| Self-determination..........10 | |
| rights, your self-preservation, your ability to choose, your self-determination. That is not true. It simply means full | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| how you want to feel and react. This self-determination is not a superimposition or self-deception when you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| the part in you that is available for self-determination at this moment. Through it you will experience | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| it as part of you and thus establish self-determination, the vastest universal force will empower and activate | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| you are aware of their habitual patterns. This self-determination is your key to liberation. You will see | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| saw more explicit proof that the theory of self-determination and self-choice is true. One of our group | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| difference between suffering and peace, between helplessness and self-determination, between infantile dependency -- be it on another | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| all people indiscriminately, to rationalize away true self-responsibility, self-determination, and positive involvement with life. The life substance | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| state of being, but they are without self-consciousness, self-determination, a self-propelling initiative. The human state of consciousness | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| learned a major lesson of life. Having learned self-determination and self-responsibility, having been guided into this understanding | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Self-determined.............2 | |
| True religion is a willing process: a free, self-determined action, derived from understanding. It makes people act | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to be her authority. She must fear her self-determined enslavement. Thus the feminine principle or femininity is | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| Self-determining............6 | |
| are in the true sense of the world self-determining. Control, in the best sense, is yours, without | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| feel floating, being carried, yet actively participating and self-determining. This is a wonderful way of being. It | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| while the movement of activation is deliberate and self-determining. Words are insufficient to explain these facts and | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| exist in every endeavor and creative act. The self-determining, voluntary act expresses self-confidence and knowledge of one's | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| cannot truly be a woman unless she is self-determining. In the terms of this lecture, a woman | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| you are at least quite conscious of your self-determining power. You no longer feel victimized and can | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Self-devaluation............2 | |
| misconceptions of your world is the equation of self-devaluation with humility and goodness, and the equation of | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| more explicit. When you speak the word of self-devaluation into your inner being, you must become fearful | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Self-devastating............5 | |
| matter, to project them into yourself in a self-devastating way, which avoids the issue just as much | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| distortion. There is a direct correlation between this self-devastating guilt and your distrust of life. It is | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| correlated with a self- devastating guilt. And the self-devastating guilt is correlated with a denial of the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| to change through self-confrontation, is entirely different from self-devastating guilt or shame. Remorse makes it possible to | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| of the lower self; and you equally confuse self-devastating guilt and self-hate with honest admission of what | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |