| Self-images.................5 | |
| that these negative tendencies exist behind all idealized self-images. But they are hidden, and since they crassly | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| only to squeeze ourselves into our own idealized self-images but we actually try to live up to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the defenses, the games and ploys, the idealized self-images, the specific forms of denial you seek in | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| is not easy to do at first. Cherished self-images and pretenses prevent almost everyone from doing this | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| motives for choosing mates. Mass images, appearances, idealized self-images were nourished; pride and vanity were elevated into | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Self-imitating..............1 | |
| momentum of consciousness is the quality of being self-imitating. It is very hard to convey this aspect | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| Self-importance.............20 | |
| is a sign of a false sense of self-importance. This entire inner process centers around the ego | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| That is, the I will give up its self-importance for the sake of the Thou. Then you | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| be in God! 57. THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE Greetings, my friends. God bless all of you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| emotions produce sounds, but the loud voice claiming self-importance does not produce a very harmonious sound. The | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| get rid of the pride, the vanity, the self-importance: you comprehend that there is no need for | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you be aware of the mass image of self-importance in your own soul. In this mass image | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| conflicts arise out of the mass image of self-importance. You can easily see that this mass illusion | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| always connected with the universal mass image of self-importance. I would now like to mention a very | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| my friends, how the particular mass image of self-importance, strengthened by various personal images, may be responsible | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| counterbalance the influence of the mass image of self-importance, you overcompensate by scrupulously proving the decent side | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| this direction. Bring out the mass image of self-importance. You can only do so by feeling the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| be, the connection between the mass image of self-importance and the God-image is this: it creates a | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the psyche. The stronger the mass image of self-importance and the stronger the God-image, the more the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| draws you away from the mass image of self-importance comes from two sides: the side of the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| a form of exaggeration in order to enhance self-importance, whether open or hidden. It will be of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| faculties, as well as a means to seek self-importance. Now be content with your intuitive faculties. QUESTION | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| -- doubts, aggression, jealousy, possessiveness, self- centeredness, and self-importance -- in short, everything in you that belongs | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| manifold: hostility, humiliation, pride and shame, hurt, arrogance, self-importance, self-pity, insistence on unreasonable demands, and many more | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| self-centeredness versus other-centeredness. Self- centeredness can be childish self-importance in which you expect the whole world to | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| misconception mentioned before. Partly, its motive is childish self-importance, waiting to set oneself off from the rest | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| Self-important..............1 | |
| and reason cannot enter, along with the actual self-important and destructive impulses you also hide some of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Self-imposed................7 | |
| fears. He forfeits all pleasure and happiness by self-imposed hardship. In other words, he chooses unnecessary hardship | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| your spiritual life is gravely impaired. By such self-imposed limitation you isolate yourself more and more, and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| truly face them and free yourself from your self-imposed prison. When you do face and come to | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| as you fail to let go of the self-imposed restrictions, you not only make your giving impossible | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and the indirectly available. By taking down your self-imposed fences you make more and more of the | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| these undesirable parts in order to remove the self-imposed blindness. You will find again and again that | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| attention to until now. This ongoing refusal and self-imposed blindness remove you to such an extent from | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Self-impoverishment.........3 | |
| is felt as painful without a feeling of self-impoverishment, then it is purely healthy. QUESTION: If a | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| personality becomes. The more the false giving by self-impoverishment and lack of self-assertion takes over, the less | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| to give to life will never appear as self-impoverishment -- on the contrary. The loving man will | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| Self-imprisonment...........1 | |
| true selfhood and its results, as opposed to self-imprisonment and its results. The knowingness that the law | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| Self-improvement............2 | |
| this artificial squeezing-into-something-you-are-not process can never attain genuine self-improvement, self-purification and growth, because you started building an | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| all the distortions. QUESTION: In this process of self-improvement, the more we understand others and forgive, the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| Self-incriminatory..........1 | |
| at, exposing or admitting anything that is too self-incriminatory. The resulting crisis must break down the faulty | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Self-indoctrinating.........1 | |
| The magnetic power of the force field is self-indoctrinating and self-perpetuating; it is like a deeply imprinted | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| Self-indoctrination.........1 | |
| power of your thinking, the power of your self-indoctrination. When you encounter this self-deception in you, my | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Self-induced................3 | |
| best not to admit that this is a self-induced process, however; you prefer to attribute it to | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| so that you are unable to find the self-induced stoppage. Blessed are those who are aware of | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| your inner will and intent toward overcoming this self-induced protective stagnation, by mustering the courage to feel | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Self-indulgence.............15 | |
| that likes to wallow in the swamp of self-indulgence. So the why of the trouble and discomfort | 21 THE FALL |
| forgiving yourself because you fear your craving for self-indulgence. You also fear to face fully that which | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| these positive ideas have now a counterpart in self-indulgence and self-hate, both of which derive from cowardice | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| guilt and self-accusation in false repentance; of the self-indulgence in self-acceptance. These are just examples, but you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the truth, when it is a result of self-indulgence, of indulging in a destructive line of least | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| like yourself without falling into the danger of self-indulgence and self-justification for the destructive traits that exist | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| so that self-liking is no longer confused with self-indulgence, and honest self-confrontation need not bring self- loathing | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| result must be borne with courage and without self-indulgence. Doing so fosters the helpful attitude that mistakes | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| create proper self-acceptance that does not deteriorate into self-indulgence, you must take a very systematic approach. First | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| the one hand, or, on the other, of self-indulgence, denial, repression and evasion. Such understanding requires continual | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| hand, and, as an apparent antidote, self-coddling and self-indulgence and denial of the lower self on the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| self regarding self-love and self-honesty or, in distortion, self-indulgence and self-hate -- or, to put it differently | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| healthiest, most divine way, without a trace of self-indulgence or denial of what is true in your | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| by using religious doctrines. Or you may project self-indulgence and guilt in a different way by becoming | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the self. The distortion of this balance is self-indulgence at the expense of others and lacerating self-hate | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Self-indulgent..............11 | |
| friends, that my words are not what a self-indulgent person likes to hear. There is no easy | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| fail because your failure would affect me. The self-indulgent, lazy self-pity of the weak makes stringent demands | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| goodness. The natural letting go is not a self-indulgent lack of self-discipline. It is rather a state | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| example of the crass opposite -- the weak, self-indulgent person, the derelict, one who negates all discipline | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the same way. On the other hand, the self-indulgent one, who evades self-honesty as much as the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| controlled person has lost contact with life. The self-indulgent solution is no more in contact with the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| subtle inner dishonesty in which I am too self-indulgent to face myself and change, and choose rather | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| where you before tended to be lazy and self-indulgent and looked for the line of least resistance | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| don'ts, commands and prohibitions. The totally childish and self-indulgent consciousness does need such rules imposed from the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Leadership requires a lot of self-discipline that the self-indulgent do not desire to exert. The often necessary | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| is too lazy, too fearful, too selfish, too self-indulgent, he commits as grave an injustice and dishonesty | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Self-indulgently............1 | |
| is only true if self-love is practiced by self-indulgently shirking the necessary pain of life. This is | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| Self-inflicted..............15 | |
| aware that every difficulty in your life is self-inflicted and therefore you have to go through it | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the bliss and happiness of eternity after the self-inflicted misery has been experienced. The scales show this | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| and happiness. This means going through the unhappiness, self-inflicted by error and ignorance. The outcome will be | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| temporary state of suffering, understanding that it is self-inflicted; but it is also completely active in the | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| in some way, despite your revolt against your self-inflicted lack of freedom. This conflict can be resolved | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| fix your life, make decisions for you, take self-inflicted hardships from you. The realization of how you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| on the way to outgrowing the prison of self-inflicted suffering due to errors and false concepts. This | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you forevermore. It will liberate you from your self-inflicted prison. Be in peace, be in God. See | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| This removal must mean to go through the self-inflicted unhappiness out of error and ignorance, not to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is a hurt anyway, I'd rather have a self-inflicted hurt than be hurt by someone else. ANSWER | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| be a hurt anyway, I'd rather have a self-inflicted hurt than be hurt by someone else. ANSWER | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| true self-understanding, and the consequent liberation from your self-inflicted prison, there will be nothing strained in your | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you had feared it, why you rather chose self-inflicted prohibitions. The fences are rarely just simple constructs | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to accept what they observed. Due to your self-inflicted, fearful blindness, you are paralyzed; you do not | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| that is, your total being. Your impoverishment is self-inflicted because you cannot face that moment I spoke | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |