| Self-exoneration............1 | |
| playing the victim game? ANSWER: The distortion is self-exoneration at the expense of making others guilty, whose | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Self-expansion..............2 | |
| constitutes the barriers to the three avenues of self-expansion. Let us consider this more closely. Take first | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| universal love, responding to your valiant efforts of self-expansion. Be in peace, be in God! 133. LOVE | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| Self-experience.............2 | |
| from and a first extension beyond your familiar self-experience. Let us assume, for example, that you have | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| I can only hint at the difference in self-experience here, for words cannot convey the enormous difference | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Self-explanatory............3 | |
| the different main religions are represented. It is self-explanatory that they work differently in each sphere, according | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of your pride must lead to separateness is self-explanatory. The second cardinal sin is COVETOUSNESS -- greed | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| trait in question. Denial is of course quite self-explanatory. You neither displace nor project what you do | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Self-exploration............16 | |
| think of the analogy between space exploration and self-exploration, which will soon be confirmed by human science | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to achieve as my earlier words may indicate. Self-exploration and facing lesser evils make the psyche strong | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| it for someone who is not involved in self-exploration. Even intellectual understanding is not possible if you | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| inner areas ready to be uncovered in deep self-exploration. Your every effort, even if at the moment | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| observe, unless one is on a path of self-exploration. You, my friends, are becoming aware of inner | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| understand your problems in a more profound way. Self-exploration makes forever new layers of your psyche accessible | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| are many who ardently pursue a path of self-exploration yet shy away from certain facets of their | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| psychological reasons you uncover in the course of self-exploration. All these reasons are valid in themselves, as | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| fear of pleasure. For those of you whose self-exploration is still not extremely deep, such a statement | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| sign that there are steps to take in self-exploration. You must shift the focus of creation to | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| coin. At the beginning of the path of self-exploration, you may not be aware of even your | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| out in what way. During the process of self-exploration, you will also find your lack of faith | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| your truth. Only indirectly, as a result of self-exploration, will the past cease to be the present | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| examples of each to use for your further self-exploration. Suppose there is something painful in you that | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| to all His aspects become meaningful. Only through self-exploration can you find out God's truth. Otherwise you | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| you on must always be primarily concerned with self-exploration and self-knowledge. It must never stop there, however | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Self-explorative............1 | |
| The first phase, in this regard, is purely self-explorative. The second phase -- often overlapping with the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Self-exposure...............4 | |
| to overcome a no-current against the process of self-exposure. For wherever the trouble festers, a deep shame | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| word. Only through the honesty and courage of self-exposure and purification will you gain sufficient initial self- | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| important reason for secretiveness is the fear of self-exposure. The fear says, If I show myself as | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| life. Often, there still exists a blindness to self-exposure and to the exposure of others that fails | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Self-expression.............81 | |
| Every time a rightful and healthy impulse for self-expression manifests, you feel and think of it as | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the individual, not only infringing on the person's self-expression, but also undermining the sense of self-responsibility which | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the unhealthy motives merely covered the form of self-expression best fitted for your individual personality. In either | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| it is. It is often a search for self-expression, channeled in the wrong way, or a longing | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| became an additional reason for you to hinder self-expression. Consequently, as you perceived such emotions to be | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| your psyche, an unhealthy climate that hinders your self-expression. If it is an unhealthy wish, you cannot | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| have been clogged up before. No form of self-expression needs to suffer at the expense of those | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| in a conflict between the need for vocational self-expression and the need for mutuality in a love | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| creation. In the healthy psyche, one type of self-expression supports and strengthens the other, rather than causing | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| receiving, or any other natural, legitimate need and self-expression, hidden one-sidedness often creates overt one-sidedness in the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| to be expressed, regardless of how constructive such self-expression may be in itself. Such over-emphasis may be | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| needs connected with this one issue of vocational self-expression. Apart from the need to earn a living | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the other. Vertical displacement substitutes one form of self-expression with another. Compulsiveness is the result of both | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| happiness becomes possible. When you desire the utmost self-expression, for the greater happiness of yourself and others | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| a constant growing into more experience and more self-expression. Therefore constant knowing effects constant growth. When evaluating | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| Declare that you wish a specific kind of self-expression, vocation, profession, set the goal you really desire | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| on and on into constructive further unfoldment and self-expression. Effort, against one's will, in order to conform | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| only a limited amount of desirable forms of self-expression and fulfillment can be had; other choices have | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the removal of your fences, your self-unfoldment and self-expression. Effortless effort should become the movement of this | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| seems excessive. Happiness must further not only individual self-expression, expansion, and the inner manifestation of the divine | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| aware of this connection. Whenever an aim for self-expression and fulfillment stubbornly remains unfulfilled, a denying attitude | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| and how does this hold you back from self-expression, from union, from experience, from a fearless state | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| cannot find the delicate balance of allowing your self-expression and also receiving the other's self-expression. Since no | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| allowing your self-expression and also receiving the other's self-expression. Since no rule can be made about the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| real relating, the closeness which eliminates isolation. Intimate self-expression and relating flows with the life-stream and brings | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| when you pursue negative, destructive aims -- free self-expression is dangerous, contact with others is dangerous, and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| necessary, a control that prevents union, prevents free self-expression and relaxed, joyful living. The tighter the control | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the negativity must remain. This negativity excludes unfoldment, self-expression, and fulfillment, as well as the creative powers | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| embrace limitless vistas of experience for happiness and self-expression, this is exactly what your reality must become | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| conceivable possibility. In this consciousness, infinite modes of self-expression, bliss, pleasure supreme, and stimulating new ventures exist | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| or frustrates you. If you feel that your self-expression is hindered, if you feel that there is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| human being has proportionately more possibilities for varied self-expression than the blade of grass. As I said | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| is open for exploration, for new ways of self-expression and self-finding, giving form to forever more worlds | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| forever new and more varied experiences of bliss, self-expression, fascination. It is everything, literally everything, that the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to unfold into greater states of fulfillment and self-expression. But if desire is tense, urgent, and contracted | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| an ongoing, never-ending process of steady expansion and self-expression. The principle is exactly the same as that | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the cramp that denies truth and change, therefore self-expression and light. Open up in this way, to | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| selfwill does not diminish the free spirit of self-expression. Neither does it diminish your genuine dignity when | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| a narrow margin of pleasure, and confining your self-expression? Since you do not really want to give | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| be experienced. There are many beautiful means of self-expression. I can realize them and bring them into | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| most profound sense will make increasing joy and self-expression possible. Without these traits, I must remain deprived | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| it for the purpose of increasing pleasure and self-expression. My dearest friends, I have given you new | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| your lives further and bringing more light and self-expression into them. Receive the love and blessings, my | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| create a new divine manifestation. New forms of self-expression can only come into being when the self | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| all endeavors, all successful completion, and all meaningful self-expression. Such a synthesis of creativity, imagination, and ideas | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| is the bridge to inner unity and fulfilling self-expression of life. The acceptance of your hate will | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the real needs of an adult? They are self-expression, growth, development, reaching one's spiritual potential and everything | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| with eternal life and ever-flowing creativity, joy and self-expression. This world does not exist in some faraway | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| world and into a benign cycle of creative self-expression? All this must be clearly perceived, understood, and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| experiences, better and deeper feeling capacity, more creative self-expression, more joy and serenity. All this exists in | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| life experiences, both inner and outer, and to self-expression. If it is rightly practiced, it alternates. If | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| upon you the greatest fulfillment, expansion, and joyful self-expression. You willfully doubt and negate abundance under the | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| possible to experience this or that joy, creative self-expression, pleasure? Or, is it possible to first experience | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| that can supply you with any fulfillment, any self-expression, any joy you wish. They are all close | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| your misery, must erode your strength and your self-expression. It makes you truly weak. How can you | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| meditation and commitment in meditation to a positive self-expression that you deeply desire because you miss it | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| feel inhibited and reluctant to claim this full self-expression, it would be good to look at your | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| may increasingly avail itself of wider possibilities of self-expression, commensurate with its own growth. It is very | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| abandon all your individual needs and forms of self-expression and submerge into an amorphous group organism. It | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| mean change, growth, and higher levels of creative self-expression in dealing with the world without and within | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and bliss, increased vision of new alternatives for self-expression, manifest when these energies are used according to | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| new vision brings enormous peace, security, joy, and self-expression. It is not an illusory image of wishful | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| woman been subjugated and denied her birthright of self-expression, of mental, emotional, and spiritual equality with man | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| of intelligence, resourcefulness, creativity, psychic strength, and productive self-expression as man. To claim that she does not | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| and her love will not lessen her creative self-expression but rather enhance it, just as her creative | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| deeper movement of your soul toward change. Fuller self-expression means change. If there is no change, there | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| If there is no change, there cannot be self-expression. Let us take this phenomenon first purely on | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| halt the natural movement to follow your fuller self-expression into more inner unity and wholeness, more peace | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| you become whole and acclimated to intense joyous self-expression, but you completely lose the fear of changing | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| Realizing yourself means feeling comfortable in a new self-expression. That is the task. And only the first | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| area in your inner universe, ready for further self-expression, ready to seek change as something to cherish | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| True freedom, with all its joy and liberating self-expression can only exist to the degree that self-discipline | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| need to express themselves but too often this self-expression is curtailed. Encouragement to communicate feelings and thoughts | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| too. All of this will come from free self-expression of their impressions and a mutual exchange. I | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| is concerned, with all the infinite varieties of self-expression of all higher selves. Your being value can | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| what is essentially you -- in direction, in self-expression, talent, taste, opinions, philosophy, in true feelings, your | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| them. It is a powerful bright force of self-expression that never infringes on others. The kind of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| does not mean that individuality and very individual self-expression will disappear. By no means. Quite the contrary | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| your safety expands into a greater sphere of self-expression. You have made more of the foreign territory | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| much more easily. The art of communicating, of self-expression, grows as you grow. Thus you become an | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| will enrich your personality with new ways of self-expression. There will be room for firmness, for standing | 254 SURRENDER |