| Subconsciously..............11 | |
| that you do so. You are doing it subconsciously, and often in the wrong direction because you | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| between your troubles and their causes, which you subconsciously yet deliberately had pushed out of your awareness | 21 THE FALL |
| reason-type does in the opposite way. Both are subconsciously afraid of their opposite extremes, and therefore they | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| do anything in their power to avoid -- subconsciously and ignorantly -- the great experience of unity | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| negative in this respect -- though perhaps only subconsciously -- that he or she is deeply convinced | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| if the self-will- current goes into certain channels, subconsciously the person may think: I must have love | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the other person involved, although often indirectly and subconsciously. Resentment directed to the self is masochism. It | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the real reasons for inferiority feelings are hidden. Subconsciously you do register your imperfections and inadequacies and | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| a very good indication that the person is subconsciously not willing to face something. What is it | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| because less time remains available. Younger people may subconsciously tell themselves that they may still fulfill their | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is lacking. And therefore, when approaching old age, subconsciously they know the time is approaching to go | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Subdivided..................3 | |
| real needs. The real needs can also be subdivided. First, you will become aware of the need | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| The second step is restitution, which is often subdivided into first expressing the real guilt to another | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| -- and those like it -- can be subdivided into the following stages: You first struggle to | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Subdue......................3 | |
| view that induces you to repress and to subdue what should be encouraged in a constructive way | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| needing admiration; needing to compare and compete and subdue others to prove itself superior. This is the | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the unworthiness of an authority who tries to subdue you, abuse you, exploit you, or trample upon | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Subdued.....................5 | |
| after the fall, into contact with something divine, subdued as this manifestation may have been for the | 22 SALVATION |
| drive did not exist in you, in whatever subdued a way. Recognize that fact. The moment you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| always the winner, while the loving parent is subdued, apparently weaker and under the domination of the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| appease, to cajole, to submit to, and become subdued by, this imaginary God-image. To recapitulate: the first | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| this identical infant living within yourself. It is subdued by other parts of your personality which have | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Subjective..................47 | |
| and therefore all these matters of belief are subjective and not absolute or objective. The conclusion, based | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| surprised how often you find a personal, emotional, subjective reason behind your convictions. QUESTION: What is the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the world tend to judge everything from a subjective point of view. Such people -- many of | 36 PRAYER |
| surely find out that somehow your view is subjective; perhaps your vanity was hurt, or you have | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| yourself. You will not be under the emotional, subjective impression that you alone have such feelings. For | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you think and feel during that time, is subjective and has no bearing on the objective hour | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| attitude; every measurement or any other value is subjective in spirit. Is that clear? COMMENT: Yes, thank | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| strong that you cannot find the emotional and subjective reasons behind it. Finding your motives requires the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| see it. And then try to detect how subjective you may have been so far. It will | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| one's opinion is based on emotion and therefore subjective -- even if it should happen to be | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| such and such, but I realize it is subjective, and therefore I take it with a grain | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| it is not surprising that children project their subjective experiences with authority on their imaginings about God | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| your desire is unreasonable in its force and subjective importance, yet you cannot help it. The only | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it, the criterion will be what was said. Subjective coloring, due to positive or negative emotions, will | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of this forcing current you cannot help being subjective. You respond favorable to those who agree with | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the problem. You will increasingly realize how subjective your emotions are, no matter how much you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you will fully understand that when you are subjective, you do not know the meaning of love | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to concede to others. This attitude is highly subjective and unrealistic and affects others more strongly than | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of forcing others to love you; 2) your subjective outlook, hidden in your emotional reactions, that makes | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong. When you see the good, partly for subjective reasons, you will possibly see what is really | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| find reasons and explanations for his irrational, emotional, subjective behavior or attitude. QUESTION: At one time, you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and how does it bear on objective truth, subjective truth, and psychic truth? ANSWER: There really is | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: There really is no such thing as subjective truth. I know such terminology may be used | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is said that one has come across a subjective truth, but actually this term is a contradiction | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| general complaints are often motivated by the inner subjective disappointment of not being taken care of. When | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| generalization. Beware of it. Always use the personal, subjective associations -- what you think, feel, and experience | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| objectify rather than probe the dream for its subjective meaning. Be careful of that, my friends. A | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| about a very personal issue, while projecting a subjective emotion upon a general issue. It is impossible | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| problems which reveal the existence of a deep, subjective and destructive involvement, even if non-involvement is being | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| will then perceive the difference between objective and subjective anger. The former does not have an urgency | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| peace, this disturbance, is always a sign of subjective anger, which is a sign of not being | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| its full light are absent. Such a limited, subjective evaluation is inevitable if the soul suffers too | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| on reality. An emotion is based on a subjective inner condition. Here is an example: Let us | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| factors within yourself that cause you to be subjective, distorted, and out of touch. In short, you | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| on objective factors, or on personal, colored, and subjective notions. May these words help you again toward | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| imagine a future and live it. Your own subjective colorings, stemming from your desires and fears, distort | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| in a direct approach to yourself and your subjective reactions. One of the great difficulties in life | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the perpetual change in movement only worsens the subjective experience. However, the fight and fright exist also | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| can apply it to the seemingly most insignificant, subjective experiences and reactions in your daily struggles, the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| for inner change meets with greater resistance. Your subjective interpretation of the event makes the crisis disproportionately | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| you. In reality, your life is merely a subjective expression of yourself, not a fixed, objective, immovable | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| kind of energetic or feeling experience. The more subjective the thought is, the more tinged with negativity | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| more tinged with negativity the feeling becomes. A subjective thought is one that is created from personal | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a paradox. For too much desire, intense desire, subjective desire -- desire stemming from the ego and | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| than your own motivations, distortions and opinions, your subjective judgments and negativities -- you deny the truth | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| disputed, as if good or evil were merely subjective perceptions. Here again we are dealing with a | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| superficial level according to limited, personal, and highly subjective perceptions. When the issues are seen on a | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Subjectively................5 | |
| all the good arguments you are deeply and subjectively involved. QUESTION: Did I misunderstand then in interpreting | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| more subtle inner strain. Rejection or failure may subjectively constitute imperfection of which you are ashamed -- | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| a situation, even if truly perceived, but utilized subjectively, produces an emotion and not a feeling. Feelings | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Only the person who is very distorted, very subjectively influenced and disturbed -- and even then it | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| it is not trustworthy and is full of subjectively colored distortions and prejudices. The new consciousness always | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Subjectivity................20 | |
| the spirit world it is exactly the opposite. Subjectivity validates the spiritual attitude; every measurement or any | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| in God! 42. CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY Greetings in the name of God and Jesus | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| less objective you will be. Objectivity means truth. Subjectivity means colored truth, half-truth at best, complete untruth | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| in many cases. Contrary to a conscious lie, subjectivity results in unconscious or unintended untruth. All this | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| other person! There is another form of extreme subjectivity that comes from the same root although it | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| know which one of the two extremes of subjectivity is more important for you to tackle first | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| resist an untruth out of inner blocks and subjectivity rather than out of freedom and objectivity. In | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which you yearn for. By recognizing your hidden subjectivity, you automatically approach objectivity -- and thereby truth | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the first step is to eliminate your personal subjectivity. Love is objectivity, among many other things. Subjectivity | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| subjectivity. Love is objectivity, among many other things. Subjectivity is self-centered, and love and self-centeredness cannot exist | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you remove the obstacles. Your inherent self-concern and subjectivity is one of the greatest blocks to giving | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your wrath. You will notice the personal, colored subjectivity we discussed the other day, and thus you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| type of unreality you live in. Objectivity versus subjectivity, which we discussed last time, is one phase | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| unreality. You must understand that you create your subjectivity, and therefore unreality, through your strong and urgent | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| its intrinsic merit. ANSWER: Exactly. That is the subjectivity that arises out of childish emotions. Of course | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| adequate reasons to hide this emotional reaction and subjectivity. That is what is called rationalization. Thus an | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of always explaining your reactions away. Observe your subjectivity. And gradually you will come to the point | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| feeling. Feelings are based on objectivity, emotions on subjectivity. In both instances, they may be pleasant or | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| as a result of your infantile self-centeredness and subjectivity in outlook. As you mature, you develop a | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and infantile pursuits, limited outlooks, lack of concern, subjectivity and unfairness due to blind, isolating tendencies. If | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |