| Self-expressions............3 | |
| These, and many other apparently contradictory needs and self-expressions, can harmoniously live side by side in healthy | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| them. They are a product of your own self-expressions, of your various spheres of consciousness. You must | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| own soul in an unending series of new self-expressions, new forms of pleasure, and depths of unifying | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Self-facing.................15 | |
| an indirect outcome of inner growth, self-awareness, and self-facing. QUESTION: Can one draw a conclusion about character | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or not. If you proceed in your sincere self-facing, you will learn and you will be guided | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| who walks the stony, narrow road of real self-facing will, for the longest time, have no such | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| also must exist, but with emphasis on further self-facing, on giving account of what you really feel | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| and more people find the joy of true self-facing, no matter how painful this may appear at | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| a group out of this stage in to self-facing, can the souls of these people begin to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| himself. Only after reaching deeper levels of such self-facing, will he gradually avoid the kind of prayer | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to evade something. You may evade insight and self-facing, or you may overcome the risk of loving | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| prayers, the loftiest thoughts can never replace utter self-facing and making conscious what heretofore slumbered in the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| examined. Cruelty is the greatest stumbling block to self-facing, to living in the dynamic, adventurous beauty of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| of you are quite accomplished in this pathwork, self-facing to a degree, you still manage to hide | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| life, one can comfortably shirk unpleasant aspects of self-facing. This is why hopelessness is no less wishful | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| avoid that which seems so difficult -- honest self-facing. QUESTION: What is the reason, and who bears | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| one's self-purification. Conversely, only by thorough self-honesty and self-facing can relationships be sustained, can feelings expand and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| this negative part, you can change it. Honest self-facing includes courage and humility, and never induces hopelessness | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Self-finding................43 | |
| After a certain time these efforts of daily self-finding, retrospection, meditation, prayer, and resolutions will enable the | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| a little bit, then the real work of self-finding and self-purification begins, and for this phase again | 22 SALVATION |
| find forever new stamina for this path of self-finding that is a joy to all of us | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| not the final aim. The final aim is self-finding and self-purification, for only through that can you | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| reason for life on earth is purification and self-finding. There are many ways that can help you | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| I am showing you on this path of self-finding is a gradual, slow way -- and there | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| Whoever approaches the stony and steep road of self-finding will experience gradually, little by little, changes that | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| conscious in your work on this path of self-finding and self-development. Becoming conscious of these hidden currents | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| can then be used for the purpose of self-finding in all the work you do on this | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| courage and your willpower on the path of self-finding. This is the only liberation possible, liberation from | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and needs further understanding in your work of self-finding. I think you understand clearly by now that | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| acknowledged, unless one is on a path of self-finding. It takes time, effort, and extremely good intent | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| unless you do the work of self-search and self-finding. The vague feeling of something being wrong makes | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| the very time one starts the work of self-finding, or shortly thereafter. By what laws the time | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| only be gained by this very process of self-finding through which you lift the fog. You cannot | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| valuable as a tool for the work of self-finding, which is the process of making the fog | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| The more you work on the path of self-finding, the more you are bound to find this | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| work on the path. With this work of self-finding, the sayings will have a very clear meaning | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| renewed strength to continue on this path of self-finding. How fortunate you are! For, the liberation, the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make substantial progress in your own liberation and self-finding in the truest sense of the word. Now | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| or hostility. The possibilities are manifold. Integration and self-finding can occur only when these tendencies are individually | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| -- and that is an extensive search of self-finding, self-realization, facing oneself, followed by the reconstruction of | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or not this is so. In your further self-finding, you are bound to determine this -- and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| too long maintained and at the expense of self-finding, leads to escapism and the false religion I | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| by step, through the pathwork process. The word self-finding, which we use constantly, will now take on | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the finding of the real self. No such self-finding can occur unless you actively change something in | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| and are not involved in this process of self-finding, these will merely be words which do not | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| Until this core can be experienced through extensive self-finding, rather than just listening to my words describing | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| developed far enough to choose a path of self-finding. Everyone you come into contact with is therefore | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| will to plow ahead in this work of self-finding will enable you to do so. May these | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| how successful you are in your work of self-finding, can observe, if you just look at yourself | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| your daughter who are in this work of self-finding. Both of you have found in your discoveries | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| even in years, when, in your work of self-finding you come to the point when you will | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Each individual going through such a path of self-finding, is bound to contribute to this great change | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| blind because you are on a path of self-finding. You cannot be. Condoning and blindness to what | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| incentive to start on a similar road of self-finding. Such a way is not as easy and | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| this reticence? Could it be that I cultivate self-finding only in those areas that do not hurt | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| because it makes sense. A systematic work of self-finding is necessary to understand this transference in its | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| one thing to go about the work of self-finding with the vague outlook of becoming a happier | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| who are deeply involved in the processes of self-finding. Evil is, or results from, numbness and a | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| circle only by working on a path of self-finding. Each moment of discontent is alive with answers | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the world, because they bring true liberation and self-finding, the coming-into-one's-own we speak so much about. The | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| for exploration, for new ways of self-expression and self-finding, giving form to forever more worlds, more experience | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| Self-flagellation...........1 | |
| the ills of the world. No guilt, no self-flagellation, only the recognition of a fact. Outer reforms | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Self-flattering.............1 | |
| for you, but only if you discard all self-flattering disguises, everything that nourishes complacency and lures you | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| Self-forgetful..............1 | |
| that you have the innate capacity to be self-forgetful, but that your little ego thwarts this natural | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Self-forgetfulness..........2 | |
| the fear that blocks the blissful experience of self-forgetfulness in union with a mate. Some of you | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| involvement and love between the sexes. Healthy, intense self-forgetfulness makes it possible for the ego to dip | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Self-forgetting.............1 | |
| one's need to love and be loved? Doesn't self-forgetting create stronger needs which may be frustrated? Does | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| Self-forgiveness............7 | |
| very beloved friends. 226. APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF Greetings, my most | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| for what they are. You confuse self-acceptance and self-forgiveness with condoning and whitewashing the negativities of the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| death lurks in your heart, consciously or unconsciously, self-forgiveness is extremely difficult, because one of the worst | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| punishments is the threat of extinction. Lack of self-forgiveness brings this threat into focus. It triggers it | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| to put it differently, your need to learn self-forgiveness on the one hand and self-confrontation on the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| total dedication to self-confrontation and self-respect, self-love and self-forgiveness in true proportion. You can now allow the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| rather than denial, you come to self- acceptance, self-forgiveness. Therefore you experience that God has already forgiven | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Self-frustration............1 | |
| great deal of hopelessness is rooted in such self-frustration. Now let me give you two specific meditation | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |