| Self-responsible............27 | |
| because then they do not have to be self-responsible. On the other hand, an unhealthy fear is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| have to think, to face, and to make self-responsible decisions. In that way, truth is perverted. This | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| understanding -- you will develop into a strong self-responsible being, trusting in your own capacity to obtain | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and relating, and experiencing joy. You are truly self-responsible. You have the integrity and courage to be | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| to the degree that man has become more self-responsible, more aware of himself, more mature. But wherever | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| You must first determine to become a strong, self-responsible ego, an ego that is mature enough on | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| are many levels where you are mature and self-responsible enough to give up the childish version of | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| is not license. Only one who is fully self-responsible is capable of utilizing the freedom creation has | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| than their own unconscious processes, they are not self-responsible, no matter how subtly and covertly this may | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you come to express this honest, healthy and self-responsible way of life, the more you will feel | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| learn from then can she be strong and self-responsible. Then she will be unafraid of total surrender | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| If you are not strong and independent -- self-responsible in the deepest sense -- the power of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| wisdom. For this divine wisdom makes you completely self-responsible, which you erroneously consider a disadvantage, overlooking the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| possible without the other. If being a deeply self-responsible and decent person in the truest sense seems | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you can truly love only when you are self-responsible, not when you cling to someone else, when | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| irresponsibility in order to become decent, mature, realistic, self-responsible and safe, or you take pleasure from the | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| that involves you totally and makes you totally self-responsible. For example, if you doubt that you can | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| choose, to create and to affect. They are self-responsible and accountable for their decisions to think one | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| distortion of the truth that you are a self-responsible agent, which, in reality, is not, of course | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| to cease the false service, to become more self-responsible and consequently more self-assertive. You find a balance | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| When people refuse to become truly independent and self-responsible, they do not under take to meet their | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| perhaps different, to not conform, to become more self-responsible. This phase is now approaching its end. The | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Let us look at an example. The more self-responsible you are, the more you contribute to the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| between the sexes. The new woman is completely self-responsible and therefore free. She stands on her own | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| circle will open the heart. The fully autonomous, self-responsible, self- actualizing man and woman have nothing to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| of an empty word. As you have the self-responsible duty to liberate yourself from all personal images | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| experience their strength, their capacity to be independent, self-responsible, creative, and resourceful. As long as this is | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Self-restraint..............1 | |
| not, as might be supposed, that the less self-restraint there is, the freer the person. The more | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Self-restriction............1 | |
| while find outer circumstances for blame for this self-restriction, but when this is no longer possible, you | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Self-revealing..............7 | |
| Do they communicate in the deepest, most truthful, self-revealing way, sharing their inner problems, helping each other | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| honesty, in this truthfulness, in this intimacy of self-revealing as you really are, not as you want | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| By handling obstructions in a truly honest, open, self-revealing way -- according to the principles of this | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| to create and preserve by hiding. If your self-revealing seems to elicit more criticism and censure than | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| now see more clearly. The false way of self-revealing is the childish, lower-self way that says, in | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| friends, when you assess the results of your self-revealing. The key always lies deep within you: Are | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| is that communication is an essential part of self-revealing and openness. Effort is needed, a lot of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Self-revelation.............10 | |
| for the other being, as well as for self-revelation, requires inner activity and alertness. But since people | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| if you refrain from risking the journey of self-revelation together. This, my friends, is marriage in its | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| if you refrain from risking the journey of self-revelation together. This, my friends, is marriage in its | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| prison, there will be nothing strained in your self-revelation and your relationships. You will intuitively choose the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| time. Maintain your awareness. Do not force your self-revelation unduly, though some courage may be necessary. If | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| this respect, they cannot expect the freedom of self-revelation from those whom they help. It is so | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| if practiced in an utterly truthful way, by self-revelation and self-confrontation. Nothing dangerous can ever happen, provided | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| think of yourself. Meditation must constantly encourage this self-revelation not only in a general sense, but primarily | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| of the boil and the attitudes are adjusted, self-revelation brings peace; understanding brings new energy and aliveness | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| inner regions with all its apparent hardship of self-revelation and self-confrontation will make you increasingly aware of | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Self-revolving..............2 | |
| its own noise -- that is, to its self-revolving, erroneous thought processes. If you are not aware | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| self- feeding, self-augmenting in ever-increasing speed and momentum; self-revolving in an ever- increasing swirl of charged energy | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Self-revulsion..............1 | |
| approach those dark spots they pull back in self-revulsion and turn all their destructive energy outward against | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Self-righteous..............19 | |
| are two different kinds of authority -- the self-righteous kind and the higher kind that is with | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| understand the reaction others have toward you. The self-righteous severity that sometimes takes hold of you -- | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| God -- in other words, that he was self-righteous? ANSWER: Yes, that is pride. There was pride | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| fearing a god who is severe, unjust, pious, self-righteous and cruel. The person who unconsciously maintains the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| because they cannot distinguish between true morality and self-righteous moralizing -- are often those most strongly afflicted | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the harm of defenses; the harm of a self-righteous or moralizing attitude with yourself and with others | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| reality and loving are much more interconnected than self-righteous trying and loving are. Now, are there any | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| justifying and condoning truly undesirable things, such as self-righteous acting out. In such a case it is | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| without falling into the trap of projection, self-justification, self-righteous exoneration while blaming others on the one hand | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| self- responsibility and therefore aggrandizes his or her self-righteous accusation. In other instances and relationships, your liberated | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| immediately affects its counterpart in others. Mutual accusation, self-righteous blaming, the compulsion to build a case against | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| capacity to be strong, truly right and not self-righteous, truly independent, and fulfilled. The admission of heretofore | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| respond to this act of love by being self-righteous and acting the all-innocent one who has always | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| receptivity. By the same token, the grabbing, insisting, self-righteous yes equally prevents creative receptivity. Both yes and | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| together. They do not assume the stance of self-righteous blame to widen the gap between the self | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| really is. It makes you constantly fluctuate between self-righteous accusations and morbid self-recrimination and guilt. The accusations | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| the evildoer is nearer to God than the self-righteous, apparently good person. Inertia refrains from action for | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| interaction and are still on the level of self-righteous one-sidedness, they nevertheless serve a higher purpose. How | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| your stake in some prideful, egotistical, self-elevating and self-righteous position that, at the same time, creates projected | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Self-righteously............4 | |
| The other alternative is to rationalize, justify, and self-righteously explain harboring such evil or unkind desires, while | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is no longer forgotten. When you blindly and self-righteously act out destructiveness, you do express evil. By | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| out the evil, which you sometimes even do self-righteously. You will know who you are. And strangely | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| not face openly distort the personality into becoming self-righteously severe with others. Religionists often distort reality in | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Self-righteousness..........8 | |
| even if this means giving up self-will, spite, self-righteousness, and other negative currents. The magnitude and glory | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| a certain type of selfishness; a power drive; self-righteousness; a certain greediness to have more, to be | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| going to be involved with your vanity, in self-righteousness? Must your little ego triumph? Or will you | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| people. When they use it, they think of self-righteousness, of the very moralizing character I have discussed | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| usage is appropriate because righteousness is often actually self-righteousness because it stems from the wrong attitude we | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Everything was acted out with impunity and in self-righteousness. The stronger ones had the rights and needed | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| important than my little vanity and my little self-righteousness. I dedicate my life to the Spirit of | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| For when you are blinded by self-interest and self-righteousness, by resentments and demands, by fear and guilt | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |