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| of the ego has been overcome. Since this separateness is nothing but blindness and lack of understanding | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| to hatred, fear, or egotism, and union became separateness. Then wholeness split even further the more this | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| bad and impure ones -- spiritual pride and separateness from one's fellow-creatures. Since you will be utterly | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| when you feel so ashamed. You have created separateness for yourself with all your inappropriate defenses. But | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you cannot achieve either one without losing your separateness. And how do you lose your separateness? By | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| your separateness. And how do you lose your separateness? By doing the very thing that seems hardest | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| hour. There is so much fear, shame and separateness in the human heart! We recognize it again | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| erotic force will lift a person out of separateness, be it only for a short time. Eros | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| will the soul find in the pseudo-security of separateness. Even an otherwise thoroughly self-centered person may be | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of the apparent risk of adventuring away from separateness. People who are afraid of their emotions and | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and to be found, so as to dissolve separateness, regardless of how much the other side of | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to leave the four walls of your own separateness. Some of my friends are unaware that to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| to leave the four walls of your own separateness. Some of my friends are unaware that to | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| sexual fault, therefore, lies in the misdirection and separateness of your sexual drive rather than in its | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of loving, which is born of selfishness and separateness. Combine your sexual drive with the one and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you more and more in a wall of separateness, egocentricity and blindness. These qualities make you commit | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| that are self-directed, motivated in a spirit of separateness. Separateness of soul, briefly, comes about when people | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| are self-directed, motivated in a spirit of separateness. Separateness of soul, briefly, comes about when people withdraw | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| love, of reality, of self-responsibility all lead to separateness. What this actually means is that the person | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| not always obvious. Each human fault contributes to separateness and is of itself a wrong conclusion; therefore | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to the disadvantage of another person. This is separateness -- and separateness is the illusion of the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of another person. This is separateness -- and separateness is the illusion of the world of manifestation | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| that detachment is just another way of expressing separateness? ANSWER: Not necessarily. When it comes to words | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| and destructive way. At the other extreme is separateness, the attitude that makes one believe one can | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is harmful because of its self- centeredness and separateness from love. But the remedy does not lie | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| stands for dishonesty, hypocrisy, cowardice, avarice, selfishness, egocentricity, separateness. The static principle in its positive aspect stands | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| of outer ease. One aspect of immaturity and separateness is that people always think the other person's | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of many branches, many subjects, all separate. The separateness, fostered by intellectual concepts, is bound to divert | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| divert the soul forces and increase their inner separateness, thus prohibiting creativity. Creativity can function only in | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Creativity can function only in wholeness, never in separateness or compartmentalization. The most important aspect in education | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you are still in the state of self-centered separateness. The transition from self-centered isolation to the state | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| when in fact you struggle to preserve your separateness, were cleared up it would make the fight | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| increase to the extent that your pride of separateness decreases. The fullness and richness of life will | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the extent that you leave your state of separateness in which you assume that in order to | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of understanding you will recognize how steeped in separateness you were. The moment the insight comes you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| will truly see that the old state of separateness was, and still is, your world. Then your | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| due to your basic inner state of self-centered separateness they are turned back. After the initial effort | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and unfounded fear of leaving the state of separateness. It is exactly what I was trying to | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you cannot achieve either one without losing your separateness. And how do you lose your separateness? By | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| your separateness. And how do you lose your separateness? By doing the very thing that seems hardest | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is so. You see in their aloneness and separateness people believe deep down in their emotions -- | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see you barricading yourselves behind a wall of separateness. This wall is a useless and illusory form | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| inner person may resist leaving the wall of separateness, even if there is some outer goodwill. Then | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| from not daring to leave one's isolation and separateness, may paralyze the life force so much that | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| unloving. Separation of concepts exists where imperfection and separateness of soul exist. Unification of these concepts, when | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| separates you from others. Since its nature is separateness, it isolates you and makes you, and those | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| egocentric, blind, and cannot understand others. Immaturity means separateness. In separateness, one does not love and is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and cannot understand others. Immaturity means separateness. In separateness, one does not love and is therefore in | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and the different currents and components leading to separateness, neurosis, or sin. The first cardinal sin is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the effects of your pride must lead to separateness is self-explanatory. The second cardinal sin is COVETOUSNESS | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| blindness which leads to outer selfishness and to separateness. The third cardinal sin is LUST. Lust is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| love; where your pride, self-will and fear, your separateness, petty self-pampering and cowardice surround you with a | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| if it is motivated by love or by separateness, selfishness, fear, or pride. You still evaluate yourself | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you will in fact lessen the isolation and separateness that cause so much suffering and loneliness. Since | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the same as everyone else's spiritual self, the separateness is lifted the moment you are no longer | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and stress the need to grow out of separateness. By thwarting this creative instinct, not only is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and the untruth of concepts which have bred separateness becomes evident. If you truly meditate on this | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| inner freedom, and error, the result must be separateness and stagnation. These two principles might be visualized | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| directly to freedom from fear, distrust, insecurity, isolation, separateness, and stagnation. Such objectivity must open the door | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| disappointment and fear must create a barrier of separateness. Follow through this sequence, my dearest friends. Are | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| self, may experience death as fearful seclusion and separateness, but for those who are not afraid of | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| host of negative emotions such as fear, hostility, separateness, self-pity, ambivalence, and vindictiveness. These emotions make love | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| separate -- apparently safe but separate. Later this separateness may be overcompensated by false sentimentality, dramatization, and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| is withdrawal, indifference, non-involvement, non-commitment, numbness of feelings, separateness and refusal to love. When you are involved | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| one of the two alternatives of closeness or separateness. This can never work. It can be resolved | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| more you are afraid -- of ruthlessness and separateness, of rejection and humiliation, of physical and mental | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| power to switch from destructiveness to constructiveness, from separateness to inclusion. You must use the power to | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| them from life. Thus you equate your physical separateness with individuality. It is of course true that | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| annihilation, because your very existence seems threatened. Humanity's separateness is the result of this threat; it is | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| as a separated being; hence, it pursues further separateness. Since the limited consciousness ignores the existence of | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| traps you in the particular illusion of your separateness, depriving you of the benefit of discovering your | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| of life and therefore moves toward exclusion and separateness is the opposite of love. The opposite of | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| nature of life. Then you will abandon seclusion, separateness, hate and fear. Open yourself up, tentatively at | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| individual consciousnesses, for only in this way can separateness be eliminated. Union as a cerebral process, or | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| tremendous force, moving individuals toward each other, making separateness painful and empty. The life force therefore consists | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the struggle, makes you incapable of relinquishing your separateness. You thus bar yourself from completing your spiritual | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| you toward others and dissolving the wall of separateness and defense. You will then find that not | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| you into the pleasure supreme of giving up separateness, you frustrate yourself on the most important level | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| is not honest contact with another person. The separateness causes misery, because it reflects the separateness between | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| The separateness causes misery, because it reflects the separateness between the outer and inner self, the self | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| responds and reacts. Look at the illusion of separateness between your outer and your inner life as | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| dualities that constantly accrue from the state of separateness. Let us come, my friends, to the fundamental | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| divine substance. Violation of these attitudes nurtures hate, separateness, distrustfulness, illusion, weakness, the tendency to damage the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| decreases the capacity to love and increases underlying separateness and selfishness in the destructive sense. So you | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| may desire to proclaim their destructive selfishness and separateness as health and self-assertion. This is why I | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| no apparent way out, induced violence, rage, greed, separateness, and other destructive emotions. This still exists in | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| a trace of apprehension, tension, tight greed or separateness. It is the capacity to undefendedly give and | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| a result of pride, selfwill, fear, vanity, greed, separateness, lovelessness, one-upmanship. In this way, you will find | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| essentially incompatible with pleasure. Your negativity creates tension, separateness, contraction. It comes from an excessive ego-orientation and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| says, I am better than you. This means separateness, one-upmanship, everything that is opposed to a state | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| ultimate reality, while the other side strives toward separateness, destructive aims, fear, hate, and blind assumptions that | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| lives. They content themselves with the pseudo-security of separateness and aloneness, for this offers less threat, or | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| a higher degree of consciousness, that all the separateness that appears so real in your realm is | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| realm is as much an illusion as the separateness between your two selves. It is an artifact | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| human beings live in this overall illusion of separateness which is the cause of pain and struggle | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| and cultivates the ego: pride, selfwill, fear, vanity, separateness, duality, in sum, the belief that there is | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| ego maintains itself with pride. It maintains its separateness by creating an artificial conflict between the self | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| ego, and what that really means. Isolation and separateness are, without a doubt and without exception, tragic | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| tonight's lecture -- by choosing love, rather than separateness, as your way of being in the world | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| But when your consciousness is steeped in the separateness as the only reality, when it mistakes the | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| you break through the confines of time and separateness to which your limited mind has bound you | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| that only in its ego manifestation, in its separateness, is such a distortion destructive or evil. The | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| way unless you have overcome certain attitudes of separateness. Otherwise, this knowledge would be dangerous for you | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the outer manifestation, is in a state of separateness. It is unable to perceive the oneness of | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| it penetrates the void creates the illusion of separateness. In separateness itself there must also be imbalance | 228 BALANCE |
| the void creates the illusion of separateness. In separateness itself there must also be imbalance. But such | 228 BALANCE |
| is a seeking of safety through isolation and separateness. It is a movement reaching inward that is | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| degrees. Lack of love can simply manifest in separateness, in hopelessness, in lack of faith, in depression | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| and fear, hate and love, ignorance and wisdom, separateness and union, death and eternal life. One of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| to go through a period of isolation and separateness from the invisible realities in order to grow | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| periods of privacy do not indicate isolation or separateness. They merely mean that a time of being | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| fusion that no longer knows the pain and separateness of the dualistic state of mind. As you | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| former times there was a greater sense of separateness because the distance between people and their lack | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| a definite impact on spiritual growth. Isolation and separateness between people in the past made the world | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| they can reach the goal by seclusion and separateness. They have their rationales. But the truth is | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |