| Self-realized...............11 | |
| personality levels and heal the distortions. A totally self-realized person will be enlivened by the real self | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of the cosmic flow. This is why the self-realized state, conveyed in human language, often sounds deceptive | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the lightness and lack of seriousness of a self-realized person is completely different. Let us recapitulate: A | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| manifests more and more. Then a person is self-realized. Then he or she lives on the level | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to do with your thoughts and feelings. But self-realized individuals know exactly how they create their lives | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| say this: when the human being is totally self-realized, these centers can function optimally because then the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| is the same for everything and everyone. Totally self-realized entities are parallel to, exposed by, and in | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| reoriented. An individual who is what we call self-realized -- whether still in the physical body, or | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| negative, are the exception. The former is a self-realized person; the latter cannot function at all in | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| discuss how you affect others from your positive, self-realized, purified levels of being. These clear, free levels | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| discuss the principle of sexuality in the totally self-realized individual, in the average person, and in those | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Self-recognition............36 | |
| be recognized and overcome on the path of self-recognition and purification. Whoever commits himself to the path | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| unrecognized violations of the laws in your soul. Self-recognition, self-analysis, and the digging out of these currents | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| effort, patience -- and, perhaps, suffer some pain? Self-recognition and the tearing off of masks is always | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| good. But actual salvation can only lie in self-recognition and self-purification in whatever world you live in | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You have to start on the road of self-recognition in a much more profound way. It is | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| only through the long road of self-knowledge and self-recognition that the answers will gradually make a whole | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feelings requires the slow process of self-development and self-recognition. You may realize that you do not have | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| futile and unrealistic, but this period of constant self-recognition where you make comparisons between your emotions which | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| change these currents immediately. You will grow in self-recognition and self-understanding, however. This is fundamental. The proper | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to go on the path of self- development, self-recognition or purification, or whatever other name you chose | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| and soul begins to change with such clear self-recognition, because you approach truth. The severest and most | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| probably in the right way of self-development and self-recognition. Anyone hearing or reading these words has sufficient | 31 SHAME |
| you have learned: the necessity for self-unfoldment through self-recognition; the overcoming of the lower self; the rechanneling | 36 PRAYER |
| to suffer so much? ANSWER: For lack of self-recognition and for self-deception out of pride and fear | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| that only hard labor and the humility of self-recognition can attain. QUESTION: Would you kindly repeat what | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| that in the course of your progress in self-recognition on this path you realize that a certain | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| a small part of the whole picture. Inner self-recognition, however, will reveal more of the picture so | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Once you have reached a certain point in self-recognition, you become aware of the false concepts you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| obstacles, that is, by taking the path of self-recognition. Creativity is blocked by inner errors. Many of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the work with you on this path of self-recognition. May the coming year bring you a few | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| you decide to work on this path of self-recognition, usually a few decades in your present life | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| that you often start on the path of self-recognition because you are tired of life's problems and | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| Every problem you solve, every insight of honest self-recognition is in some measure instrumental in changing the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| an important one, if one seeks self-knowledge and self-recognition and the other one does not, can the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| for one person to do the work of self-recognition, and so to grow inwardly to his or | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| up, to camouflage messages that lead you toward self-recognition and inner change. That is all it can | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| come, as it always does from any healthy self-recognition and insight. Merely by observing your reactions, you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| will. When more people follow a path of self-recognition, growing and developing their own resources, they will | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the first place, you should rejoice about this self-recognition, rather than feel bad that you cannot accomplish | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the path. Does the improvement occur automatically through self-recognition, or is there any value in certain disciplines | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| friends who have worked on this Path of self-recognition. For this is, indeed, something to be thankful | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| wish to believe that any activity other than self-recognition can bring me spiritual development? Is growth possible | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| fear. It is this fear that blocks full self-recognition. The triad of pride, self-will, and fear also | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| whose real nature they fail to understand. Deep self-recognition is a long and consistent path requiring the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| can be a sharp instrument of purification and self-recognition if one is inclined to use it. By | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| perfection harbors within itself a state of deep self-recognition that contains respect and love for the self | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Self-recognitions...........1 | |
| one. Real peace and strength usually follow unpleasant self-recognitions that one has accepted fully. QUESTION: Isn't lasting | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Self-recrimination..........1 | |
| you constantly fluctuate between self-righteous accusations and morbid self-recrimination and guilt. The accusations never deeply convince you | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Self-regulating.............21 | |
| fact. The further consequence is that the deep-seated self-regulating process of conscience says no to this endeavor | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| Be in peace, be in God! 153. THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES Greetings, my dearest friends | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| be trusted is by realizing that they are self-regulating. They function as perfectly and completely as many | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| processes which you take for granted and the self-regulating nature of which you never even think about | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| sleep, exercise, in order to maintain the involuntary, self-regulating functions. The ego's task is to choose to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to work in a reliable way. Then their self-regulating nature can reveal itself. The temptation to evade | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you miss. Only when you have experienced the self-regulating nature of the involuntary processes and the involuntary | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| are, in their healthy functioning, as trustworthy and self-regulating as a body functioning in health. An integrated | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| your deepest nature. The latter feelings have the self-regulating wisdom built into their very existence, just as | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| just as the destructive emotions and assumptions become self-regulating in the automatic reflexes they force upon you | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in yourself, it is because you ignore the self-regulating nature of the cosmic flow that any constructive | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| it has to grow into its self-reliable and self-regulating nature, it is bound to produce fulfillment. The | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| part of human nature is fully grown, the self-regulating quality manifests more and more. Then a person | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| so they cannot discover the perfection of the self-regulating law. Most of you, as you are now | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| This feeling is, again, due to ignoring the self-regulating nature of the creative life processes. Recognition of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the degree they are still distrusted and their self-regulating reality ignored, self-deception must still exist. A will | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| yourself of the deeply meaningful lawfulness of their self-regulating nature that just takes care of itself. You | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| cramp up the natural pulsation. Let the involuntary, self-regulating lawfulness establish harmony within by not interfering with | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| cannot be adequately described. It contains a wonderful self-regulating mechanism that can be utterly trusted. To the | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and passive, initiating and receptive. Gradually a harmonious, self-regulating integration will occur. You Must Lose What You | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| sustain, nurture, receive, and take in. This organic self-regulating, spontaneous rhythm cannot be determined by the mind | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Self-regulation.............2 | |
| that the same process applies to other levels. Self-regulation exists in nature in every possible respect. You | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| biological ones. If the ego does not interfere, self-regulation occurs effortlessly and naturally. Again, the ego has | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Self-rejecting..............7 | |
| will be unable to feel so guilty and self-rejecting about it; nor will you feel the urge | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| process of reeducation begin. The denying, panicky, frightened, self-rejecting, and perfection-demanding attitude you usually have makes every | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| human or any other, is very angry, very self-rejecting, very impatient because its own growth process is | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| a child is angry and impatient, guilty and self-rejecting because it is not yet an adult. Would | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| from destructive behavior, and also how guilty and self-rejecting you feel when you give in to the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| in it. When you still feel weak, confused, self-rejecting, or unfulfilled in any area, when you are | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| delay its natural flow. Equally disruptive is the self-rejecting attitude, I am so bad that I deserve | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |