| Self-devastation............1 | |
| to look at their own real guilt without self-devastation and without this painful inner struggle in which | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Self-development............56 | |
| a medium is working on the path of self-development, then neither material self-interest nor vanity or any | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| is on the small and narrow path of self-development. The goal is perfection. The basis of this | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you have to climb the steepest path of self-development and purification. And you have to learn the | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you if you take the spiritual path of self-development. However, if you are not stronger than they | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| This happens on the path of perfection and self-development, the path of happiness. If you are willing | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| very good purpose, unless it is important for self-development. If and when this information should become necessary | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| prerequisite before you can give to others, is self-development, self-purification, and self-knowledge. It is tearing off your | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| forcing it; it can only grow organically by self-development. It will grow by living these laws, even | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| that it is necessary to develop oneself. And self-development cannot be done without self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the | 21 THE FALL |
| person in question undergoes the strictest process of self-development and purification, only if the steepest and most | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by step in the proper direction of inner self-development, of making hidden emotions, fears or problems conscious | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Changing your feelings requires the slow process of self-development and self-recognition. You may realize that you do | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| in your decision to walk the path of self-development and purification is to become clear about this | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| this incarnation. That means following this path of self-development. Not only those traits which are commonly called | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| can be neutralized. After a while, with proper self-development, objectivity and impartial judgement are attained. If you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| do not have to be extremely far in self-development to accomplish this. Anyone can do so. All | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| purposes as well. However, it is certain that self-development cannot be attained without the full use of | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the most important substance of spiritual food is self-development. Your innermost self, your divine spark, is constantly | 31 SHAME |
| -- most probably in the right way of self-development and self-recognition. Anyone hearing or reading these words | 31 SHAME |
| soul. To continue this series of lectures on self-development, I will discuss tonight a new subject: shame | 31 SHAME |
| shame, there could never be an incentive for self-development. Without it, no one would ever undergo the | 31 SHAME |
| with realistic self- recognition -- the foundation of self-development -- the more you despise yourself. The more | 31 SHAME |
| of what can be expected of you in self-development according to your overall spiritual development. I know | 31 SHAME |
| creativity if it were combined with purification and self-development. There are many talented human beings who have | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| greater the necessity for a stringent path of self-development! I cannot stress this enough. So if you | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| final decision to walk on this path of self-development, as well as each victory on this path | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| where they can take such a path of self-development or fulfill a spiritual mission. They are people | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| your work on this path of self-finding and self-development. Becoming conscious of these hidden currents will give | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| entire attitude and life direction is geared to self-development, knowledge will come to you at certain periods | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| save you from the labor and pain of self-development. QUESTION: Bearing in mind that Adam and Eve | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| As to philosophies, religions, teachings and methods of self-development, there are none on this earth which are | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not bring a happy solution. But in your self-development, wherever you stand in this respect, you can | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| a person can start on the path of self-development and still harbor certain ideas which are not | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certainty, not brought about by the labor of self-development, that they are immortal in spirit while they | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| important. However, if without the organic growth of self-development, the inner conviction of immortality -- I do | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| is right. Salvation can ultimately lie only in self-development. If more and more people would go on | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| day should be designated for the pursuit of self-development and spiritual fulfillment. The meaning is: A certain | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| does not need to be stressed again. Such self-development, in combination with awareness of general conditions as | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| of evil, that is rejecting the road of self-development. ANSWER: Well, in a distorted, ignorant way, yes | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| lead a person to take the road of self-development and purification in the deepest sense and, certainly | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you think this over carefully. The rejection of self-development and purification does not come from the instinct | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you explain how this works? ANSWER: Growth and self-development can, to a degree, take place in every | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| is possible to be on a path of self-development on the whole and nevertheless miss many an | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| God is not an inner experience, derived through self-development, but the pursuit of an idea or ideal | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| beings and have fruitful contacts with them. As self-development proceeds, barriers fall; fear of others, and fear | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of you who follow this path of intensive self-development, and are meant to affect those areas in | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the inner experience of truth is lacking because self-development in its vital form is not practiced, these | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| be your every effort in the direction of self-development, liberation, and self-realization. One of the fundamental human | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| to nature, art, pleasure and leisure, spiritual reality, self-development and permanent values, together with collecting and assimilating | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| integrated with the greater self. Evolution, growth, and self-development must bring you to more frequent realizations of | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the struggle is, the better. Any path of self-development must sooner or later come to terms with | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and involved in your own intensive work of self-development, self-confrontation, and growth -- in short, the path | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| you who are engaged in this pathwork of self-development start out in the usual way: you are | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| ongoing movement of truth. In our approach to self-development, we find again and again that the basic | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| who is venturing on such a path of self-development. Some of you may doubt the reality of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| new-age marriage, being on a path of profound self-development and bringing into the light the hidden parts | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Self-directed...............1 | |
| emotions that deviate from divine truth, that are self-directed, motivated in a spirit of separateness. Separateness of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| Self-directedness...........1 | |
| feelings. Instead, it has remained childish in its self-directedness and egotism. Your unconscious sexual fault, therefore, lies | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Self-directing..............2 | |
| the self or God. The balance between the self-directing mind and the creative universal powers is upset | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| one wants the creative force to work. The self-directing mind sets the universal forces in motion; they | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| Self-direction..............2 | |
| follow your every whim, to give up all self-direction, and to be governed by the child in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| attitude to death. Dying ultimately means giving up self-direction -- and this surrender, strange as this may | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| Self-discernment............1 | |
| concealed or rationalized, so that some degree of self-discernment is necessary for the voice to be truly | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Self-discipline.............58 | |
| can do that. This much willpower, this much self-discipline is available to everyone. You do not have | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| path of perfection, of development, of self-knowledge, of self-discipline, of humility, when he or she crosses the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| of divine energy. This can happen only through self-discipline and regular practice, preferably always at the same | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| my dear ones. You will need willpower and self-discipline to battle all your faults, which can never | 21 THE FALL |
| have no connection, and you become confused. Only self-discipline and perseverance will get you to the point | 36 PRAYER |
| feelings. Again, the remedy is not to use self-discipline to stop this. Even if you should succeed | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| point of conviction, you must use a certain self-discipline. This, too, is subtle and can easily lead | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| patterns. Nevertheless, there comes a point when repeated self-discipline and determination are necessary because otherwise you cannot | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you resist. QUESTION: What then is the right self-discipline? ANSWER: I believe that this lecture, as well | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| don't know how a person can live without self-discipline. ANSWER: That is something completely different. I made | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| destructive impulses which can only be checked by self-discipline. But I do not speak about that. I | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| than speaking out of a dutiful and harried self-discipline, doing something you are not yet ready for | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| letting go is not a self-indulgent lack of self-discipline. It is rather a state of fearing nothing | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| and effects of one's actions and will, using self-discipline to keep from giving in to primitive impulses | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and once the entity has learned to exercise self-discipline, there is no longer any danger in encountering | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| your lives. And where you fail to exercise self-discipline you do so quite deliberately, with an ulterior | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| without being compelled into action by them. The self-discipline and reasoning needed to overcome the ingrained fear | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| inadvertently and organically strengthened by the courage, honesty, self-discipline and willpower necessary to reach this juncture. That | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and groping to find the right measure of self-discipline, self- facing, and summoning your goodwill to see | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of guilt when you combine its rightfulness with self-discipline. If you can reconcile desire for pleasure with | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| If you can reconcile desire for pleasure with self-discipline and responsibility, you will express the inner knowledge | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| obtain them. The very need for self-responsibility and self-discipline in their most profound sense will make increasing | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| namely execution, which implies labor, effort, perseverance and self-discipline. Unless the creative idea and all those activities | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| either they are unwilling to adopt the necessary self-discipline to follow through on their creative ideas, or | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| execution, which always requires labor, investment, commitment and self-discipline. This bridge of mutuality is a very important | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| often hold the misplaced and confused idea that self-discipline hampers your freedom, and, conversely, that a free | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| conversely, that a free person does not need self-discipline. Nothing could be further from the truth. Freedom | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| gained only to the degree one uses voluntary self-discipline -- uses it for one's own sake and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| always a result of the denial of voluntary self-discipline, which goes together with self-responsibility. Every expansion must | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| self-responsibility. Every expansion must be fought for with self-discipline, by overcoming the embedded resistance against expansion. The | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| whatever level, always means overcoming laziness. It means self-discipline: the more desirable a new aspect of life | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| level first requires accepting a temporary effort with self-discipline, faith, courage, and humility until the effort becomes | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| that with increasing progress you will develop the self-discipline to give yourself time for these practices every | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| because, unless one's ego has been strengthened through self-discipline, one would drown in one's own chaos. So | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| drown in one's own chaos. So, you see, self-discipline is an unavoidable prerequisite for spiritual and worldly | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| with ease and peace. Thus do you misinterpret self-discipline for deprivation. What an error! Actually, the more | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| an error! Actually, the more you refuse voluntary self-discipline, the more you unavoidably deprive yourself of the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| ego stands on the firm ground built by self-discipline. Create a new climate in your life that | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| can focus it as a result of the self-discipline you have learned. Thus you can cultivate a | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| genuine authority, truth, guidance and the need for self-discipline and self-responsibility. Inwardly, however, people do rebel against | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| who is eager to learn. The necessity of self-discipline is great. Without it nothing can be gained | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Freedom and spontaneity on the one hand and self-discipline on the other are not mutually exclusive as | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| adults suffer from the duality that freedom and self-discipline cancel each other out, they inevitably transfer it | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| resistance, and thus becoming self-destructive. Or, conversely, that self-discipline means the dullness of laborious effort without reward | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| self-expression can only exist to the degree that self-discipline exists also. You have to distinguish clearly between | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| are to discard tyranny, must exist only where self-discipline is lacking, where adults or children act destructively | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| this topic now. The concept of freely chosen self-discipline, as opposed to necessary discipline imposed when the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| as opposed to necessary discipline imposed when the self-discipline is absent, can be made clear to children | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| in children so that they will freely choose self-discipline and no longer need to have discipline imposed | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| desires to exploit others. This fundamental understanding of self-discipline as a prerequisite for freedom will be part | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| will soon come when children will freely choose self-discipline and do it joyfully because it is their | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| -- which means a sense of responsibility and self-discipline. Self-discipline here is not meant in the sense | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| which means a sense of responsibility and self-discipline. Self-discipline here is not meant in the sense of | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| with yourself. A beautiful balance will emerge clearly: self-discipline, strict honesty with the self, and firmness with | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| of the privileges. Leadership requires a lot of self-discipline that the self-indulgent do not desire to exert | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| path teaches primarily, and with an apparent overemphasis, self-discipline. True self-purification and transformation on this path is | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| and transformation on this path is impossible unless self-discipline is acquired and used constantly against the ever-lurking | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| from the temptations to abuse freedom! How much self-discipline is needed not to do so! You also | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |