| Superconscious..............5 | |
| speaks to them: is it the subconscious, the superconscious, or the divine spark or higher self -- | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| that it is merely the medium's subconscious, or superconscious -- whatever name you choose to give it | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| nature of the personality. Intuition comes from the superconscious, if you want to be technical about it | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| an intuition. It is a message from the superconscious into consciousness. Subconscious forces help to bring it | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| vague knowledge of this still exists in the superconscious memory, but is distorted by wrong motivations, by | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Superficial.................172 | |
| The less developed a person is, the more superficial his or her understanding of and adherence to | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| concentration, and who bring this understanding from a superficial intellectual level into deeper levels, will be able | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| the first step must be to deepen the superficial knowledge, to work on that first, so that | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| whether this is just an occasional and rather superficial thought, formed out of a sense of duty | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| yes, often even more so. With all their superficial, intellectual knowledge, they are actually the ones who | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| becomes deep knowledge and enlightenment, as compared to superficial intellectual knowledge. Deep within the heart of each | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the wish for truth is sincere and not superficial. This is quite an important point. Often, human | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| and treat it methodically than to overcome a superficial mistake in action only. For then the root | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| some faults, but to admit faults in a superficial way and to become fully aware of them | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| will-directing consciousness must win. But do not be superficial about it. Test yourself again and again as | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| fundamental questions, not merely in a spirit of superficial curiosity, but in good faith. And ignorance and | 21 THE FALL |
| that this knowledge may eventually grow from being superficial and intellectual to reaching the deeper regions of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| a little better. Do not just put the superficial excuses aside. Test them, deal with them, examine | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| little differently or see you just on a superficial level. He or she may not have the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| because of your outer good will and sometimes superficial good intentions, these resisting parts of yours are | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| in your emotions as well as in your superficial knowledge, and you will rechannel the wrongly used | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| made real decisions? Or do you sometimes make superficial decisions, not weighing or facing what is involved | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| faults that you have already recognized on a superficial outer level. You may even have overcome some | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| Is that so? ANSWER: Certainly. Anything that is superficial is discontinued. Only what reaches the deeper layers | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| important that you integrate your emotions with your superficial outer knowledge, if the latter follows a higher | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| with it. Do you use it on a superficial level? Then this knowledge will be gone after | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| aware of your incapacity, though on a rather superficial subconscious level, that you keep busily closing your | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| another's. When a certain point of usually quite superficial revelation is reached, you are under the impression | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| already. All masks must fall, not only the superficial but the real, which you may not even | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you do not want to be alone. Quite superficial and vain reasons may be added to explain | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| aside from this yearning and aside from the superficial and selfish motives of your unfulfilled desire for | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| already. All masks must fall, not only the superficial but the real, which you may not even | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you do not want to be alone. Quite superficial and vain reasons may be added to explain | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| aside from this yearning and aside from the superficial and selfish motives of your unfulfilled desire for | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of you. And that is only on a superficial level, for many other facets never manifest in | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| be emotionally involved -- the opinion may be superficial, without any personal importance for you -- habit | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| a new outlook makes good sense. Changing even superficial opinions requires effort and humility. Changing thoughts that | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| continues on ever deeper levels. On the most superficial level of development, good is done outwardly but | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| trends behind a truth. In its crass and superficial version this misuse of truth is easy to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the rebellion and anger too form only a superficial layer and look behind them. Find in you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| yourself in the deepest regions of your being. Superficial knowledge is not enough. Yes, there is also | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| inner readiness is lacking, you overcompensate with a superficial outer readiness, which however can never make up | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| truth within yourself. In some instances even the superficial outer mask is lacking. And yet, when the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and shame you have found so far are superficial levels and coverups for the real guilt. The | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in some areas of your life, often in superficial and outer actions. But in the last and | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| capacity, you have to forfeit freedom. In a superficial way this applies to practically everything from your | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| Most of the help and advice is rather superficial because the basic realities are ignored or not | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| comes partly from the intellect and partly from superficial soul regions. The outer will is often motivated | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| is foolish to assume that the few relatively superficial recognitions you have made could suffice to exempt | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| could it possibly be that by a comparatively superficial effort your inner life would so change that | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| have withdrawn so far and found a temporary, superficial contentment that they are unaware of their deep | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the latter area, you will see only the superficial facts and ignore the deeper connections. Thus the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| friends, so do not be deceived by a superficial right reaction. Think of where your problems are | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| subconscious mind will take such knowledge on a superficial level. This can be dangerous in two ways | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is due to translations on a wrong and superficial level. But the deeper reasons, why such wrong | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| as you examine your real reason, not the superficial one, the reason why you were hurt in | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| in a half-hearted way, or in a very superficial way, not really understanding what it is all | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| your weaknesses and your shortcomings on the most superficial and obvious level. This recognition was not easy | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| have reached a sufficiently deep level that transcends superficial awareness, it makes your work harder than it | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to change. This change will not be the superficial adoption of new opinions, but a very natural | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| transition. Any success that is more than just superficial, that is not experienced in the spirit of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| paradox. ANSWER: Yes, if not taken in its superficial meaning, it is just the opposite of a | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that it is impossible to recognize from a superficial investigation of the self. But wherever problems in | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have understood communication. Cooperation is simply a more superficial form of communication. All universal laws tend to | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| does it do? ANSWER: It gives a temporary, superficial, and very unreal pseudo-cure. COMMENT: It takes you | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the world of duality, which is below this superficial level of your subconscious mind. It is on | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| intrinsically selfish and destructive often appears on a superficial level as righteous and holy, and vice versa | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| other two false solutions. On the conscious, more superficial level of personality, this third attempt at solving | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| more apt to occur than on the more superficial levels of human life. Beware of the false | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the natural action and action coming from the superficial layers. You assume that the real, divine self | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| difference between your genuine, true self and the superficial self. Whenever you act out of your real | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| -- it is something to meditate upon. The superficial self may perform an act which is right | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| which indicates that both alternatives come from the superficial self. This may also hold true when two | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| holds true only in a very crass and superficial area, and only to a limited degree. On | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is simply a fault. This is a very superficial evaluation, however. Laziness is not a fault to | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| shuts a door. You believe an illusion, a superficial manifestation. When you understand the previous lecture in | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| one tries to adhere at least to a superficial perfection. Again, this is pretense. Both pride and | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| much harm has come from these misunderstandings and superficial interpretations. In this case, forcing and guilt make | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| other levels have to be explored. On more superficial levels you will find that self-punishment is due | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| of what true spirituality is. It shows the superficial approach of humanity: people's disinclination to think. Your | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| involvement, even if non-involvement is being used as superficial pseudo-solution. In the new state of the real | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| a mature way, as yet only on a superficial level of your being. But do you also | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| what happens between the real self and the superficial layers of your personality. When you experience the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| love and profound understanding, as opposed to the superficial, intellectual feeling that merely recites and repeats -- | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Of these two areas of thought, meaning the superficial intellect and the real self, the intellect can | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| doubt. Questions and doubts are part of the superficial intellect. But the real self is the product | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| that is productive and lasting, long after the superficial layers of the mind have dispensed with the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| deeper level of your being, rather than on superficial ones? All this has begun and can be | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you rebel. You can, at best, make certain superficial reforms that have no solid ground and are | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| something, and using justification, self-pity, hopelessness, or a superficial rationalization, blaming outer circumstances? Test yourself very carefully | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| and growth. It is easy to focus on superficial actions and forget that one needs complete inner | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| way in which you relate may fulfill a superficial function. It may be pleasant and distracting, but | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| mutual exchange and communication takes place on a superficial level. Hence unconscious tendencies and currents affect the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| therefore supplementing this lack with a lot of superficial ties; if others are constantly sought as a | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| it is not a real relationship, but a superficial one. A real relationship means involvement. That does | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| that if this compensation takes place on a superficial level, more harm occurs than good, because the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| your own inner faculties. An emotion is more superficial, even though it may be retained longer in | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| in the soul substance. An emotion comes from superficial conditions in the soul. Reactions and responses that | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| you most need growth. Beware of a quick, superficial evaluation. Only when you question your fears and | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the child begins a process of false, pretended, superficial adherence to certain standards without inner conviction. Doing | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| outer fringes of your consciousness -- on the superficial level of manifestation -- the more withdrawn you | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| approaches life and its problems on the outer, superficial level of manifestation, and therefore cannot find true | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| superior sex. But these envies and resentments are superficial in comparison with the deeper fear of losing | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| fundamental aspect of the problem than the more superficial rebellion against sexual injustice. Try to reach the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| You see, you have discovered here a relatively superficial cluster of emotions, reactions, and attitudes. The wish | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| Finding such a No must not be a superficial, glib acknowledgement. Allow yourself to feel the full | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| provided your pathwork is dynamic and not a superficial endeavor. Some time ago, when we discussed the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| lecture, I found that my no-current is more superficial, while inwardly there is more of a yes-current | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| you experience as real are the most shallow, superficial, material outer levels, because you are so unaware | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| not just to some socially approved forms. A superficial desire for fulfillment is not enough. Taking for | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| entire thinking is still geared to a very superficial and materialistic plane, the matter the entity produces | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| am not afraid, and yet on a more superficial level I seem to think that I am | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| total honesty fully instead of in the usual superficial way of meeting life situations, unconscious destructive aims | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| truly ready to use, provided you avoid using superficial words which have no inner meaning. Many of | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| bring peace. The call of life disregards the superficial morality most people ardently adhere to, or equally | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| covered up by counterfeit feelings. After the first superficial layer is removed -- and many people do | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| either off the mark or based on a superficial evaluation. True enlightenment can only come when the | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| more you run away from yourself, the more superficial, troublesome, or unsatisfactory such contact must be. Be | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| moves and unites you with life and others. Superficial devices may make you oblivious of the fact | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| real sense is inevitable. Dislike is only a superficial factor, and you know that you are all | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| certain historical events -- or in view of superficial considerations, when judging according to appearances and in | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| of one kind of personality on a relatively superficial level. The specific personality I then discussed feels | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| alive and vibrant with well-being. We have seen superficial false conclusions and short- sighted character attitudes of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| They covered feelings opposite to love with a superficial veneer that gave the appearance of love. Such | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| acceptable, most logical or most compatible with your superficial approach to life and to yourself. Thus you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| concepts. By concepts I mean more than the superficial beliefs and theories, of course. When your mind | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| topic many years ago, but on a more superficial and general level. Now this topic can be | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| thus pull back from it or pay only superficial attention to it, you cannot help meeting their | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| own approval. I now go beyond this rather superficial level, which we have discussed sufficiently in the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| is not bottomless, and its veneer is relatively superficial. Once you learn to cope with these feelings | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| on someone else. Such dependency may have the superficial appearance of love, but you have already experienced | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| There are those who have obtained a certain superficial ability to relate but who still withdraw from | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| deeper meanings of death. This is yet another. Superficial death -- and it is nothing else but | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| boil, but dissolved voluntarily with the available consciousness. Superficial death of the human body takes place because | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| going on in you, as opposed to the superficial explanations you have so handy? When I address | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| want than to say, I cannot. On a superficial level, the exact opposite situation exists: I won't | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| with those of others only on the most superficial level. What is really right and good can | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| to move may be evaluated on a more superficial level in terms of personal idiosyncrasies and neuroses | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| for pleasure, are only partial answers and rather superficial at that. When two human beings are attracted | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| never be more than the most infinitesimal and superficial representation of what the soul really longs for | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to the interests of others, although on a superficial level it may first appear that way. You | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| it. Some of the answers exist on more superficial levels, in the so-called subconscious. Some are on | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| But these are contradictions only on the most superficial ego level where the duality of either/or reigns | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| occurred. I am not referring here to the superficial circumstances. I mean the fulfillment of the task | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| escape from it, to produce a lot of superficial noise and movement so as not to heed | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| abstraction in the sense of mechanical, dead, alienated, superficial, unfeeling or defensive thinking. How can knowledge, knowing | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| The underlying feeling may be fear. The more superficial energetic state may be boredom. Boredom is also | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the truth of a spiritual law becomes a superficial statement when it is not independently found through | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| With the new consciousness you will not make superficial decisions with your head, wanting the immediate fulfillment | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| consciousness this happened in a very primitive and superficial way. Nevertheless this stage, too, had to be | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be alive. This may sound, on a more superficial level, like a redundant statement, but if you | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| what it is not, even if on a superficial level of appearance it temporarily seems otherwise. Only | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| us look at this phenomenon on the most superficial, material level of manifestation. Let us take the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| turned upside down. There, only the outer, most superficial manifestations are recognized and dealt with; thus life | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| way. Once you connect with this reality, the superficial, illusory outer appearance will become much easier for | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| what you have known and established on a superficial level of being. You may have outgrown that | 228 BALANCE |
| of being. You may have outgrown that more superficial level without being aware of it. You now | 228 BALANCE |
| causes stagnation, you seek change on a more superficial level as a substitute. QUESTION: During this lecture | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| is utterly organic, or it can be a superficial substitute because the real change is avoided. Only | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| approach is based mainly on appearance and on superficial, dualistic, ego-oriented ways. The same applies of course | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| is even aware of the non-giving attitude is superficial and pointless. You have to recognize such attitudes | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| We have talked about them in a more superficial and cursory way in the past. I will | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| your valuelessness. Only when you pierce through the superficial substitute maneuvers of false self-value, making room for | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| observe and thereby dissolve the fog of the superficial word that is merely meaningless noise and has | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| circuit. So if you say on only a superficial level of your mind, Yes, I am worthy | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| awareness, you would have been convinced that the superficial, positive word was all there was and you | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| again, this knowledge is often merely mental and superficial and not yet experiential. Emotionally and experientially there | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| what is negative, which is often a most superficial facet, disconnected from the whole. This limited focusing | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| out the strength that first, on the most superficial level, manifests as violence and rage. Courageously express | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| emerge. Your negative feelings, fear on a more superficial level, are a coverup of that empty black | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| this is only one, and actually a quite superficial aspect of the resistance to movement. There is | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| simply displacing the fear and longing into more superficial, even though in themselves quite legitimate fears and | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| God's presence in your life. Wipe out the superficial differences and find the great bond of inner | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| and evil are often experienced on a very superficial level according to limited, personal, and highly subjective | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| states of mind, is based on a most superficial level of awareness; the persons are nevertheless affected | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| a really meaningful union chose marriage based on superficial attraction, without deep knowledge of self or partner | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| obvious and you see it on an entirely superficial level. But as you grow, as your perception | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |