| Superficially...............41 | |
| single one of you; take it seriously, not superficially, and then you will feel a great liberation | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| will make mistakes if you go about it superficially, and then do not even really wait for | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| bring you one step closer: quite the contrary. Superficially you may be able to talk yourself into | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| remember this; do not go over my words superficially. Reread them carefully; ask yourself whether you are | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| with it; do not do it hastily or superficially. Do not deceive yourself by doing it half-heartedly | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| my friends. Do not put an occurrence aside superficially, assuming it is unconnected with your personal image | 38 IMAGES |
| life completely, but not if you merely change superficially, by trying to alter only your actions. You | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the contrary. But pain cannot be dealt with superficially; it calls for hard and patient work, going | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| into an asset by trying to enjoy unhappiness. Superficially, this may appear to be a smart solution | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| doubt, and any number of other destructive feelings? Superficially one may say that this simply displays pessimism | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| yourself. Otherwise you could not be affected even superficially. As far as your spiritual nature is concerned | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cured of this disease, really cured -- not superficially by restraining the action, while the feelings continue | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the man-woman relationship came into existence as well. Superficially, there seems to be a great difference between | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| real way, deep down in your emotions, not superficially or by pretense, of having sympathy and an | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certain outer aspects of such submissive behavior seem superficially to resemble true love, it is easy, especially | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| we have accumulated our layers of images. Considered superficially it would seem that water, being formless and | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the problem of death. The atheist/materialist and the superficially religious who wants to avoid death by superimposed | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to be stressed in order to protect society. Superficially this may seem right; in reality it is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you understand these words, not only intellectually and superficially, but after working for a while and coming | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| fully. If this is done deeply, not just superficially, you will all be surprised to find how | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| my willingness to cope with them truthfully, not superficially, nor for the sake of appearance. I do | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you need. Becoming aware of your needs even superficially requires focused attention, considerable self-honesty, and much digging | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| facing the truth about yourself. Desist from living superficially in the sense of satisfying the world rather | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| realize that what you often judge quickly and superficially as old age is nothing but a product | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| COMMENT: What is unclear about that? QUESTION: Well, superficially they seem the same to me. ANSWER: You | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| yourself why you desired what you failed in. Superficially this may seem obvious, yet it is not | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| fully face this fact, not just acknowledge it superficially, such awareness on the part of all of | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| only by understanding fully and deeply, not just superficially, how these false structures came into being. There | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the individual soul. When man attempts to change superficially, he swings from one extreme to another. When | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| into the deeper regions of your personality. Considered superficially, growth and stagnation often seem similar, because both | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| consequent inferiority feelings. This may sound almost paradoxical. Superficially viewed, it certainly seems possible to think little | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| press for the other, observe your soul movements. Superficially, you may lean on the apparent justification of | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| time afraid of both. On a more and superficially conscious level, you are numbed and feel little | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| love to be whole. If it only exists superficially and not in the depths of their feelings | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| chain reactions. You must not make this comparison superficially, however. If you do it in depth, and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| mutuality exists. Mutuality means that two apparently or superficially different entities or aspects move toward one another | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| gratification and intimacy, where you reveal yourself only superficially -- perhaps only revealing your idealized self-image which | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| are now contacting through this work, not just superficially on the level of the outer being, purification | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| positive intentionality. You must develop positive intentionality not superficially, not just to comply with some rules, but | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| too uncomfortable to make waves? Do you agree superficially so as to have peace because the issue | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| you to understand that the word that is superficially spoken, while the opposite word persists underneath, will | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Superfluous.................25 | |
| this kind of perfection is reached, reincarnation becomes superfluous -- your return to the spirit world would | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| were not present, life on earth would be superfluous. If the higher self could manifest itself as | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| angry, and hurt. Mostly these feelings are so superfluous, so unfounded. You know that the remedy is | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| your blind struggle can you realize how much superfluous energy you put into the pseudo-solution that you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| out. The third alternative -- after understanding how superfluous this protective measure is apart from its destructiveness | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of awareness of it. For it is so superfluous. Of course, education has a great deal to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of this secret mind. You are plagued with superfluous fears of whether or not you will succeed | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| produced by the fear of it. It becomes superfluous and ceases to take place when the fear | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| struggle has been positively accepted will it prove superfluous, and work and pleasure will become one. But | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| making a free choice, rebellion against restraint becomes superfluous. There is a great difference if restraint is | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| from it. Hence, tight, anxious control becomes utterly superfluous. The control which prohibits your giving your best | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| all pain, in the last analysis, is utterly superfluous. These are not just words, my friends. Any | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| false, dramatized hurt can never accomplish this. Any superfluous emotion always causes the greatest pain and suffering | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the negativity of life makes the negativity eventually superfluous. Rejecting the negative experience binds you to it | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| a shadow of a doubt that they are superfluous as defenses, nor do they serve any other | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| serve any other purpose. As these feelings become superfluous and you need no longer be on guard | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| your misconceptions, fears, and shames that are so superfluous. Let us now come to the meaning of | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| more and more the natural state. Crisis becomes superfluous; therefore, death eventually becomes superfluous. This may sound | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| state. Crisis becomes superfluous; therefore, death eventually becomes superfluous. This may sound like an extreme statement especially | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| thus a destructive energy current. Death will become superfluous, will be overcome, when energy is no longer | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| ultimate folly. The fear of evil within is superfluous, because the evil is really distorted beauty and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| have abundance, so that greed will be ludicrously superfluous. Most significantly, your hate will turn into your | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| later, little by little, outer rules will become superfluous. For the inner God knows what is truth | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| already dissolving, for the new consciousness makes them superfluous. To the degree you allow God to awaken | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| be identified and evaluated, which makes the mask-self superfluous. This is the only road to the higher | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Superhuman..................4 | |
| do a lot of good seem to have superhuman strength. Those who know what life is all | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| to want to be a saint; to be superhuman and not accept your undeveloped side. Accepting it | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| is to find out about where you harbor superhuman expectations, standards you cannot really live up to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Do not expect, my dear, to become superhuman. Of course, you have to deal with the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| Superimpose.................24 | |
| and at will. On top of this you superimpose the idea that all this must be just | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| vaguely feels one's inner deviations and tries to superimpose the right way. This cannot work. If attempted | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| to handle this is to suppress it and superimpose a compulsive unselfishness that is not genuine. Out | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| any restrictions. In this way you do not superimpose right reactions on still deviating emotions, and thereby | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| look deeply enough, you will find that you superimpose not only positive but also negative emotions on | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| keep it under lock and key. Thus you superimpose and artificially exaggerate other hurts. As your work | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fail. Instead of facing the issue squarely, you superimpose ready-made answers which may be true as such | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| it only through your own experience. If you superimpose a belief that is not genuinely yours, it | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| all the more persistent because one tries to superimpose on it and does not allow it to | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the idealized self-image pretends. Often, the goodwill to superimpose ideal standards is a mixture of the true | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| govern their origin and their aim. Such pseudo-solutions superimpose still other ones, along with contradictory underlying emotions | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| become unaware of what exists underneath. Then you superimpose feelings that you think you ought to have | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| feelings and the false good feelings that you superimpose out of the need to maintain your idealized | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| conscious feelings as imperfect, you try to forcefully superimpose inauthentic emotions over them. How can you be | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| shame and fear of these emotions make you superimpose the hard and much more unpleasant feelings of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| squash the early impressions of the parents and superimpose artificial, compulsive love and honor, you are even | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| cannot have faith in God. Yes, you can superimpose it and deceive yourself about it, out of | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| through with it, no superimpositions could occur. You superimpose because you strive for happiness, for recognition, even | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| would be to further manipulate your feelings and superimpose attitudes that are not genuinely yours. You know | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| always first finding and removing misconceptions. Do not superimpose the right concepts, but evaluate and compare, using | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| foreign body did not exist. They continue to superimpose more foreign matter on the original soul substance | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the undesirable alternative. Even when you try to superimpose the truth that the universe knows no limitations | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| and wisdom rather than deny the feelings and superimpose over them your puny ego logic, ego law | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| drawers, never cleans out, and thinks he can superimpose a functional order, lives in the illusion of | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |