| Superiority.................24 | |
| you are without a mask and without the superiority with which you try to impress people. For | 21 THE FALL |
| tendencies, believing them to prove strength and independence, superiority and aloofness, would be deeply ashamed of the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| do so for the sake of proving your superiority. When you gain mastery by healthy power you | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| strong. But on the other side stands the superiority of the power type, who feels particularly humiliated | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| has never yet induced love. Nor does the superiority over others induce love, for other people resent | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| safe, with all the accompanying hostility, ruthlessness, pride, superiority, pretense at invulnerability, the underlying core may be | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| may be a ruthless selfishness, self-centered pride and superiority, excessive demands and often even cruel impulses toward | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| nevertheless wish to attain heights of perfection and superiority quite incongruous with your present inner state. The | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| needs, underneath the submissiveness as much arrogance and superiority will be found as in the other pseudo-solutions | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| may confuse submissiveness with giving up your false superiority, just as you will confuse healthy self-assertion with | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| healthy self-assertion with this very same arrogance and superiority. The difference is subtle, but very distinct. While | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| into the opposite direction of arrogant aggressiveness and superiority. Whether you manifest it outwardly, or whether it | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| people away and openly hurt them with false superiority. In all instances, you hurt others and thus | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| that there must be someone of such infinite superiority, wisdom, intelligence, he feels he must relate to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is the same as the pride that feeds superiority. Both can be shed only when one has | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| is often wrongly associated with brute force and superiority. In reality, a woman cannot truly be a | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| humans, man also assumed a general aura of superiority over all who were weaker. The mutual distrust | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| long after it remained useful. Man retained his superiority long after physical prowess ceased to be the | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| feelings, he assumed a position of arrogance and superiority over those who were physically weaker. He needed | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| game; the man will use the blame and superiority game. He will blame women for exploiting and | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| had to leave the false strength, the false superiority, behind. He had to become temporarily weak, but | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| a defense or a real expression? Underneath my superiority and arrogance, do I falter and doubt my | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| respect. They grow up with a sense of superiority, considering their denial of Christ as more evolved | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| picture. It induced pride, arrogance and feelings of superiority toward those who did not belong to the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Supernatural................7 | |
| These are then the so-called miracles, the so-called supernatural happenings. Any more questions? QUESTION: Could you explain | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| view is blurred. But you do not need supernatural vision or metaphysical knowledge to put two and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| often misunderstood. It is believed to be a supernatural, mysterious manifestation. All sorts of erroneous philosophies arise | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| channel to your divinity. This divinity is nothing supernatural or mystical, my friends. It is nothing that | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| that you know, and those you may call supernatural because they exist on another level of reality | 228 BALANCE |
| invisible and what is usually referred to as supernatural regarding both the forces of light and the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| in the long run. Therefore this disconnection from supernatural realities inevitably had very regrettable effects. But it | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Superstition................26 | |
| too unreal. The primitive person who tends toward superstition is not right. Neither are the intellectual people | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the people around you believe this is all superstition, that it cannot be possible, and that they | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| deny this fact. They think it a childish superstition. They are influenced by a present mass image | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| unconsciously. In the end, it will become a superstition, with less truth and more dogma. When this | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| original genuine experience and perception turns to a superstition, that makes a farce out of God; when | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| artificially negative side, almost as a sort of superstition, as though you believed that you can ward | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| we sent her energy and love. 236. THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM Greetings and blessings, my very beloved | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| kind of attitude that I will call the superstition of pessimism. Once it is conscious, it will | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| destructive playfulness, which is based on nothing but superstition. The obvious kind of superstitiousness is on a | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| voice, this word you speak into yourself. The superstition of pessimism begins as a superstitious destructive playfulness | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| had started this game in a spirit of superstition or perhaps in a spirit of emotional manipulation | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| you capable of pinpointing this particular kind of superstition. All such trickery of the mind is very | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| you thus counter the habitual trickery of the superstition of pessimism, where it may exist in you | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| of wishful thinking -- you revert into the superstition of pessimism. Let us be very clear about | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| their actual manifestation. The more you justify the superstition of pessimism, the less desirable your life becomes | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Daydreams are just the other side of the superstition of pessimism. So you see, my friends, the | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| of pessimism. So you see, my friends, the superstition of pessimism and the daydreaming are very closely | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| in a matter of minutes indulge in the superstition of negativity. You could accomplish the very thing | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| to realize the daydream, your disappointment reinforces the superstition of pessimism. What was begun as a game | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| yourself. You swing back and forth from the superstition of negativity to the wishful daydream. The more | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| level where you also still indulge in the superstition of your negative beliefs. You can pursue this | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| committed to the imaginary safety measure of the superstition of pessimism and, simultaneously, to wishful daydreaming. The | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| richness and yet strive for results through the superstition of pessimism and wishful daydreaming. You ignore the | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| meant to have, or what? I found this superstition safe but I see how it has limited | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| grow into self-responsibility. However, what was ridiculed as superstition was in reality a half-truth. It is indeed | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| a half-truth. It is indeed a kind of superstition to make outside forces responsible for one's fate | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Superstitions...............7 | |
| am confused about moralizing with myself regarding certain superstitions. On the one hand, I know that these | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| On the one hand, I know that these superstitions are damaging to me, on the other, I | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| why you wish to hold on to these superstitions. I do not have to go into the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in my personal work sessions, talking about the superstitions I have. For a long time, I wasn't | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| a long time, I wasn't aware of these superstitions, but all of a sudden they have come | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| admit that you are driven by unreasonable fears, superstitions, generalizations, obsolete situations that have no bearing on | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| has taken over. With the disappearance of the superstitions the connection with the subliminal levels of reality | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Superstitious...............6 | |
| significance of creation. 2) a reaction to the superstitious God- Image and self-projection of man, denying self-responsibility | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| a new positive attitude. No one is more superstitious and fatalistic than the materialistically oriented person who | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| illusion is so primitive that it is virtually superstitious, but on those levels of semi- conscious thinking | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| yourself. The superstition of pessimism begins as a superstitious destructive playfulness, but then you get lost in | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| is the reality. What started out as a superstitious safety measure gradually becomes belief on another level | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| realized. The temptation to lean on the old superstitious negative beliefs is that you need not invest | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Superstructure..............7 | |
| can be established only when you remove the superstructure which is this merciless tyrant, your idealized self | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| feel, the more stringent the demands of the superstructure or idealized self, the less you are able | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| analysis. Otherwise you could not possibly dissolve the superstructure of your tyrant, your idealized self- image with | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of your idealized self-image, the more rigid your superstructure will be. But this is not your real | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| invest valuable energies and soul forces into the superstructure, which impoverishes your life, your capacity to experience | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| only with the experience of pleasure. Behind the superstructure of moral standards, laws, and rules lies the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| used to do: artificially fitting feelings into a superstructure of explanations and reasoning. We see these superstructures | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |