| Self-understood.............3 | |
| do not mean that at all. It is self-understood that a person should be honest and should | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| over and take for granted those apparently unquestionable self-understood aspects of life. In this knowing, self-liking is | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| in you. For that is not obvious or self-understood, as I explained before. The fear is often | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Self-unfoldment.............9 | |
| of everything you have learned: the necessity for self-unfoldment through self-recognition; the overcoming of the lower self | 36 PRAYER |
| right act, most of all the act of self-unfoldment, makes you an instrument of grace. The power | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seem in this particular case, again lies in self-unfoldment. If all participants did that, very strange and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| whether true or false, is a hindrance to self-unfoldment. But on this path, and with this particular | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| responsible for creating psychic conditions damaging to your self-unfoldment. Hurts and frustrations in childhood have been recognized | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| you. Blessed be this path of self-realization and self-unfoldment. All of you who make serious efforts to | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| in a rewarding relationship, in growth and in self-unfoldment. Regardless of how much of you have progressed | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| your development, the removal of your fences, your self-unfoldment and self-expression. Effortless effort should become the movement | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| confinement of hiding is removed. The process of self-unfoldment begins with removing the walls of secretiveness. It | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Self-value..................12 | |
| will no longer be the yardstick for your self-value. Validation by others assumes such great importance only | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is of fundamental importance. Self- esteem, self-liking, or self-value -- whatever you call it -- is sorely | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| -- also departs from the wrong premise that self-value is determined by measuring and comparing the self | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| strength that grows out of true dignity and self-value. It is a pseudo-strength that comes from the | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and accomplishment to substitute for your sense of self-value, this always finally amounts to an act of | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| ability to maintain the uncentered state of receiving self-value from outside yourself. You have no real control | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| have no real control over your sense of self-value. Operating with being values, on the other hand | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| truth of your core. Then your sense of self-value is not dependent on the opinion of others | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| with humility and goodness, and the equation of self-value with pride and arrogance. Nothing could be further | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| linkage between the power of the word and self-value. How can you speak the word of faith | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| pierce through the superficial substitute maneuvers of false self-value, making room for facing your painful belief in | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| with dignity, pride in the desirable sense, character, self-value, and so on. Look at warring countries that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Self-victimization..........1 | |
| claim to be constantly injured -- your self-pity, self-victimization, resentments, blame of others whom you make responsible | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Self-victimizing............4 | |
| you dwell in the defenses of accusing and self-victimizing, the more real the limited and false life | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| in the mutual effect without becoming an accusing, self-victimizing judge. This has a salutary effect and usually | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| hearts you are really angry, blaming, punishing, and self-victimizing because your imagined real need for love remains | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| better remain closed up. Just imagine how your self-victimizing attitude will reinforce the irrational resistance of the | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Self-whitewashing...........1 | |
| requires projecting your real guilt on others, blaming, self-whitewashing, hypocrisy, and so on. Therefore you become more | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Selfwill....................89 | |
| more. Then all fears, all pride, and all selfwill will fall away. To say that they already | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| and become willing to change, thus shedding your selfwill, together with all fears of self, of others | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| is needed. Misunderstood and misapplied control consists of selfwill, forcing-current, childish greed, the inability to stand frustration | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| of what is, and the relinquishing of your selfwill are both necessary to be in inner harmony | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| stumbling blocks in the human soul are pride, selfwill, and fear. The more the soul is unified | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| The same applies to this triad. Pride and selfwill are easily overcome when there is no more | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| your influence, you will have no need for selfwill. Fear is the great locked door which prohibits | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| most desirable. Giving up control -- the little selfwill -- will finally prove to you that this | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| I am unable to let go of my selfwill and therefore unable to let go and trust | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| possess it. QUESTION: Isn't the ego connected with selfwill? ANSWER: Indeed. False ideas, as well as selfwill | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| selfwill? ANSWER: Indeed. False ideas, as well as selfwill, are naturally a result of the ego world | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| power of the ego to give up both selfwill and false ideas. Only the ego can do | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| has a false idea; that it does have selfwill. It is up to the ego to maintain | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| between the alternatives of submissiveness and domination through selfwill. You will know when to assert your rights | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| its tightly held opinions, false ideas, vanity, pride, selfwill, and fear. When this live center activates you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| way, with fear, distrust, anxiety, despair, and tight selfwill, usually in the areas where your psyche is | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| you let go the fear, the pride, the selfwill of your ego and strive toward the voice | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| free from tension due to fear, pride, and selfwill. People's habitual state is one of more or | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| means truly to love. When fear, pride, and selfwill block off this direction, loving is impossible and | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| extent are they a result of a rigid selfwill -- unwilling to bend, change, flow with the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| a struggle always motivated by pride, fear and selfwill. Often you are unaware of your struggle against | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and feeling, not out of pride, fear and selfwill, but out of the wisdom and intuition that | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| your destructiveness is always a result of pride, selfwill, fear, vanity, greed, separateness, lovelessness, one-upmanship. In this | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| the root of all destructiveness and deviation: pride, selfwill and fear. I said many years ago that | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| that where there is pride, where there is selfwill, where there is fear, there must be a | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| matter how good they may be, if pride, selfwill, and fear are not abandoned. In pride, selfwill | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| selfwill, and fear are not abandoned. In pride, selfwill, and fear the ego-structuring becomes more tight and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| fear the ego-structuring becomes more tight and rigid. Selfwill says, Me, me, me! meaning the little me | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the personality is bound to the ego in selfwill, pride and fear -- bound in the negative | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| difficulty is insurmountable and hopeless -- in short, selfwill, pride, and fear -- create a dark climate | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| when the self is willing to sacrifice its selfwill, pride, and fear -- its defenses -- for | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the hate, the spite, the malice, the ruthless selfwill? When the misconceptions are being recognized, guilt and | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| to the main sources of distortion and destructiveness: selfwill, pride, and fear. Offhand, it may appear odd | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| cruelty, envy, hostility, and selfishness. How can pride, selfwill or fear be more destructive than, say, hate | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| it. This releases your creative energy flow. Pride, selfwill, and fear are all forms of denial and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and deeper love and pleasure ensue. But pride, selfwill, and fear make this healing attitude impossible. Selfwill | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| selfwill, and fear make this healing attitude impossible. Selfwill is too bent upon its own insistence that | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of something one is too self-willed to admit. Selfwill creates rigidity and rigidity is contrary to the | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| rigidity is contrary to the flow of life. Selfwill says, I do not accept reality as it | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| attitudes express this underlying life-orientation. To give up selfwill does not diminish the free spirit of self-expression | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is always connected with destructive attitudes such as selfwill, pride, fear, greed, envy, malice, cruelty, spite, and | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| these insatiable demands for total, unconditional gratification of selfwill and pride seems indeed a catastrophic fact of | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and even unarticulated convictions, by insistence and tight selfwill, and by the negation and repression of feelings | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| prerequisites for the pathwork. The cramp of hardened selfwill intensifies many times the original residual pain. It | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| inner, healthy, relaxed will can function. The tight selfwill of the little, ineffective ego is strengthened in | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| want to tune out, to go with your selfwill, and give in to your own ideas, which | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| its own organic way, without hindering it with selfwill and preconceived ideas that stem from the limited | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| everything that sustains and cultivates the ego: pride, selfwill, fear, vanity, separateness, duality, in sum, the belief | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| be summed up in the triad of pride, selfwill, and fear, I shall show how the ego | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of the ego to maintain its limited state. Selfwill comprises stubbornness, resistance, spite, defiance, rigidity. All these | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| humiliating. Pride and fear are necessarily coupled to selfwill, just as selfwill must be present where either | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| fear are necessarily coupled to selfwill, just as selfwill must be present where either of the other | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| may be, it always indicates spite -- hence selfwill, which always blurs and falsifies reality, denying all | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| blindly involved in its negativity, including laziness, pride, selfwill, fear, wish to cheat life, and escapist tendencies | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| feelings may be distorted through dramatization, exaggeration, fakery. Selfwill may be used to put up a good | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| The experience, however, must not come from tight selfwill; it has to come from the smooth, healthy | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| form of meditation on the triad of pride, selfwill, and fear. See the same bothersome situation from | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| receptive to it. Then do the same with selfwill. Envisage yourself in a new state of reaction | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| when you attempt to give up pride and selfwill. Then, last but not least, you come to | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| The fear cannot possibly vanish before pride and selfwill are abandoned. For fear is a product of | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| the universe. You evidently believe that only your selfwill and pride can protect you from danger. This | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| safeguard is this puny protection: your pride and selfwill. Question this premise and experiment with new alternatives | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| state of consciousness in which there is no selfwill, pride, and fear, and where your conflicts, outside | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| from my distrust, and therefore from pride and selfwill? Allow your central core to fill you with | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| a state in which you can react without selfwill, pride, and fear. These are preliminary exercises, my | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| in reality, you are free enough of your selfwill, your pride, and your fears to be sufficiently | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| is possible, at least temporarily, to lay aside selfwill and open up to whatever the inner voice | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| time you consciously and deliberately lay aside your selfwill, you will become stronger and freer. State how | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| will become stronger and freer. State how your selfwill manifests, what you want and don't want to | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| to balk. Unless you acknowledge your contrariness, fear, selfwill, and pride, your conscious commitment will always be | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| the apparent abyss of surrender, giving up narrow selfwill. This self-perpetuating divine process brings a vital revolutionary | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| extremely painful state comes about only when pride, selfwill, and fear are allowed to rule the consciousness | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| your deeper consciousness, split off in fear, pride, selfwill, ignorance, greed, and hate. These same aspects can | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| reversed: fear becomes faith and trust; pride humility; selfwill a supple, resilient, flexible giving-in, going-with attitude; and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| letting go of the limited ego with its selfwill, its narrow understanding and its preconceptions. It means | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| have. Does letting go of the little ego's selfwill mean having to settle for unhappiness and unfulfillment | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the fulfillment they so ardently desire with their selfwill. To tell these people that they must let | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| loose. Energetically there must be no hard knots. Selfwill, anxiety, insistence, forcing currents and distrust create an | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| created after they have given up their tight selfwill and have begun to let go. Instead of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| mentioned before: The giving up of the tight selfwill implies first of all letting go of the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| you must give up the desire of the selfwill which you do not want to let go | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| what you acquired through this forcing attitude of selfwill and pressure. This means you may not immediately | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| of your being. Such desire often contains pride, selfwill, fear, lack of trust in the universe. It | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| movement, but choose, out of pride, fear, and selfwill, not to follow or even to notice it | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not always respond according to your desires and selfwill. To give is courage because the petty heart | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| something that does not bend according to your selfwill. This attitude gives immense self-confidence and self- reliance | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and self- reliance that constant obedience to your selfwill could never confer on you. This is a | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| develop when you pursue a road of blind selfwill and accusing fury. An open mind and heart | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| corners of holding out, of believing that your selfwill knows better than God what makes you happy | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |