| Bent........................11 | |
| No, this is not correct. QUESTION: The metaphysical bent within a person is God's gift, because through | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| difficulty. There are also cases where the metaphysical bent is used as a test, where an experience | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| assumed the mask of goodness you may have bent over backwards trying to hide what was behind | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| an unhealthy dependence on others, regardless of how bent they are on becoming independent. Nor do they | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| function, of direct ego control. Why is humanity bent on destroying, dominating, denying and manipulating creative life | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| must reverse the direction. The more you are bent on overcontrolling and dominating the inner involuntary processes | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| make this healing attitude impossible. Selfwill is too bent upon its own insistence that it is unwilling | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| for goodness, love and decency, and the unconscious, bent on destructiveness, hate and negation, mutuality cannot take | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| even have sensed before, because you were so bent on the one way it had to be | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| to consider such a possibility. You are so bent on battling the occurrence of frustration that the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| an environment and creates conditions that express this bent of consciousness. It is perhaps the most difficult | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Beset.......................3 | |
| is not equipped to find the real solution. Beset by problems it has brought into this incarnation | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| an ineffectual way. It is a lonely existence beset by fears. Conversely, those who, in distortion of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| will no longer frighten you, will no longer beset you with conscious or unconscious fears when you | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| Bestow......................7 | |
| nothing can that is truly precious and will bestow happiness on you. And the decision must be | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| give up your ego in this way, you bestow the greatest possible gift on another human being | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to them. In that way, you will really bestow a gift on your loved one who will | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| in such readiness will you be able to bestow the greatest gift on your beloved, namely your | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| natural laws which want nothing more than to bestow upon you the greatest fulfillment, expansion, and joyful | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| In a meditation of the deepest sort you bestow tender love upon every aspect of your manifestation | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| into this rich world and allow it to bestow upon you all that it contains in overpowering | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Betray......................20 | |
| ruthless, selfish -- and would often have to betray the very thing or person you desire to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| And, to get it, it seems necessary to betray others, to be ruthless, disloyal, or selfish. But | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| that you deny yourself in some way, you betray yourself by a weakness that is the result | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to be humble -- you are bound to betray also those you love best. When you find | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your innermost self is concerned, whether you actually betray the weak parent in words or deeds, or | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| abandon the very thing you yearn for. You betray the best in you because you prohibit the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| your love capacity. At the same time, you betray the parent who has actually given you what | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| to find that part in you where you betray not only the best, the highest and the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| your wrong concept of strength, but you also betray the one who seems weak to you. Once | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you will no longer find it necessary to betray the best in you, or betray another. Are | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| necessary to betray the best in you, or betray another. Are there any questions on this subject | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| and loving person who does not deny and betray the best in yourself in order to get | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| some subtle way it always causes you to betray yourself and others, to sell your soul. Needless | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| attained only when humility exists. You will not betray your real self, you will not violate it | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| effectively supply, the more you are driven to betray your truth. One can escape from the vicious | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| one is constantly compelled to sell out and betray oneself in order to ward off disapproval, censure | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| your urgency to have the need fulfilled you betray yourself, your truth, and the best in you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you may now be and how tempted to betray your best self; for greatness, regardless of how | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| is the best of you. You do not betray your reality, you do not become something that | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the opinions of others. How often do individuals betray their spiritual truth by mouthing what is supposed | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Betrayal....................28 | |
| loyalty and decency. In spite of this, the betrayal took place. Moreover, as it is bound to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| a victim. Therefore the hurt is double. The betrayal would not be half as difficult to bear | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| there is a good chance that no further betrayal and accusation will occur. Because once the negative | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you love best. When you find this indirect betrayal toward others because of direct betrayal toward yourself | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this indirect betrayal toward others because of direct betrayal toward yourself, you have another clue to your | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sufficient for you to feel this as a betrayal and, in a sense, it is that. The | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| and, in a sense, it is that. The betrayal is aggravated because you abandon the very thing | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| giving as a weakness that deserves contempt. The betrayal is subtle, but it is at the same | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| satisfying way. To find and stop this inner betrayal is important not because the parent you have | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| from it much more than you realize. The betrayal weighs you down with guilt. It is the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| their main guilt. For most of you, the betrayal of loving is your main guilt which you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| face all the ramifications and aspects of your betrayal of the one who has loved you most | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| at least, according to your feelings -- that betrayal darkens your outlook on life. It eliminates your | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| feelings. You do not trust yourself with this betrayal locked in your soul. Your psyche says: How | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| only if you find and eliminate the basic betrayal I have indicated. So, my friends, find in | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| indicated. So, my friends, find in yourself the betrayal which you have been carrying. Follow it through | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| you in some way. Perhaps you continue the betrayal in the same subtle way as you betrayed | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| which may still be rationalizations for the inner betrayal you commit all over again against the one | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| as against your innermost self. The act of betrayal is so very subtle, my dear friends, that | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| can be found to prove the act of betrayal. If you are not truly desirous of examining | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| in you, causing you to commit acts of betrayal which have many further negative consequences in your | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| lead you. By finding and understanding how the betrayal applies to your own case, you will also | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| but nevertheless, you all have similar problems. This betrayal has not only the most damaging effect on | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is absent. QUESTION: If the accusation covers a betrayal and you have a natural anger about it | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| imply that people should take any injustice or betrayal without doing whatever is necessary, constructive, and productive | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| best, be it due to fear, cowardice, pride, betrayal, and other misconceptions, all of which would leave | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| conformity, self-negation and denial of truth, opportunism and betrayal of cosmic reality, results from pride. To let | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of evil. Spiritual cowardice not only leads to betrayal of the best, of God, but to as | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Betrayed....................9 | |
| much as the one whose trust has been betrayed. In the situation where compromise is chosen, both | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| not experienced grief and disappointment because they felt betrayed. They have displayed utmost loyalty and decency. In | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| offender in turn will claim to have been betrayed to justify himself. The one betrayed is accused | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| have been betrayed to justify himself. The one betrayed is accused of having done the very thing | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| cause in you. You know you have been betrayed and disappointed and on top of it you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| betrayal in the same subtle way as you betrayed the parent. Whenever you reject a person who | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| such unfaithfulness. If a person finds himself thus betrayed -- if you want to use this word | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| your part only to find that you are betrayed. What you were promised and have hoped for | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| much too much. Then the real self is betrayed and the seeking of recognition defeats itself. This | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Betraying...................5 | |
| will never be mistreated, provided they guard against betraying their own integrity out of fear of losing | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| is the result of a wrong conclusion. By betraying yourself -- the best part of yourself, that | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a traitor, knowing that I go on constantly betraying the best in me? If I cannot trust | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| being yourself can provide. To simulate strength by betraying your real self, withholding love from the weaker | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| to exist. All the psychological aspects of appeasing, betraying, and self-alienation simply indicate that you have not | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |