| Self-protective.............3 | |
| will no longer have to hold on to self-protective behavior in the pseudo-safety of isolation. However, you | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| reluctance is very simple. It is the same self-protective, finely calibrated mechanism that knows that something in | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| state of the eternal now. There is a self-protective lawfulness in the lack of awareness of the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Self-proving................1 | |
| unique contribution. There is no need for jealousy. Self-proving is never necessary. When you know that, you | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Self-provoked...............1 | |
| never connected with the fact that they were self-provoked. Certain aspects of suffering are enjoyed by humanity | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Self-punishing..............5 | |
| the person may be constituted so that the self-punishing and self-destructive forces, put in motion by wrong | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| again that not in all cases do the self-punishing currents affect a conscious desire, even though this | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| addition to healthy and conscious ones. Self-destructive and self-punishing forces, brought forth by the psyche the moment | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| You are neither your negative traits nor your self-punishing superimposed conscience, nor even your positive traits. Even | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your weakness, hesitation, self-doubt, so many of your self-punishing patterns are a direct result of this. No | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Self-punishment.............26 | |
| only the degree varies. The compulsive desire for self-punishment due to wrong and ignorant conclusions exists in | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you, but that, in addition, the need for self-punishment is also present. A further chain reaction in | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| of the conflicting feelings is the need for self-punishment, yet, on the other hand, the desire not | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| psychological factors may be responsible for it -- self-punishment or a form of aggressiveness toward others, punishing | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| divine manifestation you represent. Not loving yourself brings self-punishment, masochism, denial of your personality. Not loving yourself | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the human personality. I discussed your need of self-punishment at length previously. Yet in the child, as | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the reasons for the hesitation and the uncertainty. Self-punishment for hidden wrong motives is only one reason | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| one lecture about the basic vicious circle, that self-punishment and self-destructiveness are very strong factors in the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| childhood for you to correct. Your fear, your self-punishment, your frustration, your anger, your hostility, your withdrawal | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| in an attitude of self-hurt, submission, and masochistic self-punishment, nor will you hold back your creative forces | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| part, I have gone into the subject of self-punishment and self-destructiveness before, but I will extend it | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and then only, will you realize the tremendous self-punishment you inflict upon yourself. For whenever you fall | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| way, disharmonious. ANSWER: The obvious answer would be self-punishment, guilt feelings, fear of success. But such answer | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| On more superficial levels you will find that self-punishment is due to guilt. The self-destructiveness derives from | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| believes one would have to be. It creates self-punishment and imposes shackles which prohibit the manifestation of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| this is due to repressed guilt. Is there self-punishment involved? ANSWER: Yes. It is self-punishment, at the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| Is there self-punishment involved? ANSWER: Yes. It is self-punishment, at the same time fear of punishment, and | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| understanding and experience of your basic problem. The self-punishment is a substitute for giving up the guilt-producing | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| Unfulfillment is not even necessarily a matter of self-punishment, as it is currently interpreted. The violation of | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| On the one hand there will be self-annihilation, self-punishment, and violent self-hate as a reaction to perceiving | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| have to go further in this regard. The self-punishment for hatred and spite, for cruelty and greed | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| and often spite. A venomous passive resistance and self-punishment are used to punish others who appear to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| joyfully and it causes you severe guilt and self-punishment. There must be a powerful reason that obviously | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| example, if both the guilt and the ensuing self-punishment are denied and repressed, they may show up | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the pain by association, the pain of masochistic self-punishment that identifies with what appears to be a | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| This then grows into debilitating guilt and indirect self-punishment. You also need to feel the pain that | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Self-purification...........47 | |
| Where do I still have to work on self-purification? Nothing that happens in your life is good | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| before you can give to others, is self-development, self-purification, and self-knowledge. It is tearing off your masks | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| divine law or to your spiritual progress and self-purification, you could use willpower more often or with | 18 FREE WILL |
| person goes through a rigorous developmental process of self-purification. QUESTION: Can some cooperation be achieved between your | 18 FREE WILL |
| do what alone matters, namely work for self-knowledge, self-purification, and utter self-honesty, then the religion to which | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| respect can only happen through a process of self-purification over the lifetimes. Unfortunately, few people are doing | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| that. Anyone going though the difficult process of self-purification will prepare the ground for becoming able to | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| you can avail yourself of the opportunity of self-purification and self-knowledge by doing what seems at first | 21 THE FALL |
| not receive the strength through the process of self-purification which alone will protect you from committing sins | 22 SALVATION |
| bit, then the real work of self-finding and self-purification begins, and for this phase again, many incarnations | 22 SALVATION |
| strengthen one's willpower for the all-important process of self-purification. Only then will a further phase come in | 22 SALVATION |
| This knowledge must be the material for further self-purification -- nothing less. And before this knowledge is | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| actual salvation can only lie in self-recognition and self-purification in whatever world you live in. Therefore, a | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yours when you walk on this path of self-purification. Once you have attained a certain height, your | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| and study with me on this path of self-purification, it may be an excellent exercise and meditation | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| final aim. The final aim is self-finding and self-purification, for only through that can you make contact | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| is certainly the fastest way to self-knowledge and self-purification. The latter is not possible without the former | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| team-workers, and after how long a training and self-purification, generally speaking, should they start working as team- | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| it in some ways on your path of self-purification, but there are many areas left where you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the person who works on the path of self-purification becomes more and more immune to being affected | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| artificial squeezing-into-something-you-are-not process can never attain genuine self-improvement, self-purification and growth, because you started building an unreal | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| started I told you about the importance of self-purification. I said that this, indeed, is the real | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| and hope tie in with this path of self-purification? ANSWER: Do you see any contradiction between our | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| fundamental that you cannot get far in your self-purification work unless you work on seeing how they | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| will be the goal that simultaneously advances your self-purification -- for one cannot exist without the other | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| fear of pleasure will disappear proportionately to your self-purification. To the degree you assume what initially appears | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| state and thus a direct help to one's self-purification. Conversely, only by thorough self-honesty and self-facing can | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| lip service to the positive goal of total self-purification and spiritual growth, but when it comes to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| while the other part strives for development and self-purification. This dualistic state must cause crisis. I have | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| mentioned. However, when a certain foundation of inner self-purification and self-awareness exists, these techniques can be expanded | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| why it is difficult to judge whether total self-purification has been achieved or not. Only complete dedication | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| my friends, for it does not lead to self-purification. It is not a realistic or constructive attitude | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| finding, of learning, of growing, of changing, of self-purification, of traversing all self-created pain and evil. Now | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| if all these practices are substitutions for self-search, self-purification, and for change from the depths of the | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| total commitment to truth, to self- facing, to self-purification, to giving up all defenses and all subterfuges | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| through the laborious descent and simultaneous ascent of self-purification. Then power can merge with the timeless state | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to the self on the arduous path of self-purification. I wish to discuss this now in detail | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| have already gone through an extensive path of self-purification and transformation, function according to real values -- | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| world of yours! How hard the struggle of self-purification must be in order to come to this | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| that in the age of unification, in which self-purification on inner levels must occur, the average age | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| in the sense of the constant process of self-purification, of honesty, of truthfulness, of commitment to growing | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| are a part of. Continue your tasks of self-purification, thus spreading this great light and being carriers | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| primarily, and with an apparent overemphasis, self-discipline. True self-purification and transformation on this path is impossible unless | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| of this fear of the unified love-sex current. Self-purification was practically nonexistent for the average person, existing | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| from fear, who follow together a path of self-purification. Their union will release this inner power current | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| may also bring a feeling of hopelessness about self-purification. Will it never end? I want to warn | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| wakeful and to never neglect the work of self-purification. This is the only key of safety. If | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |