| Tyranny.....................10 | |
| beings. As long as you are under the tyranny of your unconscious, you often cannot help acting | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| uphold them, you cultivate within yourself an inner tyranny of the worst order. You do not realize | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| intensity, and distribution of these solutions will the tyranny of the idealized self-image manifest. All this has | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and freedom which can be yours, if the tyranny and pride in your idealized self-image are weakened | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| making yourself deliberately weak, you exert the strongest tyranny over others. There is no worse tyranny than | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| strongest tyranny over others. There is no worse tyranny than that which a weak person exerts over | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| be easily observed on the outer level. Wherever tyranny and domination exist, because the will of a | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| from the outside, if we are to discard tyranny, must exist only where self-discipline is lacking, where | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| and you set up an inner system of tyranny in which you no longer feel free. You | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| within yourself. You do not understand the inner tyranny you have set up by constantly abusing your | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Tyrant......................5 | |
| you remove the superstructure which is this merciless tyrant, your idealized self. Yes, you could have self-confidence | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| could not possibly dissolve the superstructure of your tyrant, your idealized self- image with all the unnecessary | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a man. He is then a bully, a tyrant, an exaggeration, a falsehood. By the same token | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| the true reason is that you distrust the tyrant of your own lower self that wants to | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| nor is it a rebellion of the inner tyrant, which disregards reason and wisdom. It is made | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Ugliness....................26 | |
| opposite nature: harmony turned to disharmony, beauty to ugliness, light to darkness, wisdom to blindness, love to | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| worlds of beauty and harmony or worlds of ugliness and pain. You create worlds all the time | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| beings in question do not produce spheres of ugliness and darkness anymore, but have, at least to | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hatred and resentment, justice to injustice, beauty to ugliness, harmony into disharmony, and so on. For any | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| But remember, beauty is not the opposite of ugliness; life is not the opposite of death; good | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| very purpose. When you no longer negate your ugliness, you will no longer have to negate your | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| awareness, as you pray for awareness of the ugliness. When you can perceive both, not just one | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| asunder. By keeping both your beauty and your ugliness in mind at all times, you will also | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Fear assumes that acceptance and acknowledgement of the ugliness will make this ugliness overwhelming. So fear also | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and acknowledgement of the ugliness will make this ugliness overwhelming. So fear also denies the justified faith | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| conscious awareness and experience upon one's inner distortions, ugliness, darkness, evil, and suffering, as well as upon | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| be on facing one's negative aspects, distortions, and ugliness, for the danger of blindly escaping into the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| who have cultivated their beauty and disregarded their ugliness. They have thus failed to unify, and so | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| less you hate. The more you accept your ugliness, the more beautiful you become. The more you | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| your beauty through the very exposure of your ugliness. Neither aggrandize the guilt, so that it keeps | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| and thus become beautiful as you expose the ugliness. This cannot ever be harmful if you do | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| now in its nakedness with all its possible ugliness, together with your already existing beauty, you cannot | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| see objectively the temporary little ego in its ugliness without losing heart about your whole person. You | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| from within. Begin to focus on both the ugliness and the beauty. See that the very fact | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| very fact that you own up to the ugliness comes from the beauty. For only the divine | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| projecting the unacceptable on others or using the ugliness of others to hide your own. I suggest | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| you have to bring out? What is the ugliness you do not want to see? These are | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| true creative self. The more you expose the ugliness, the more you know your beauty; the more | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| beauty in order not to deal with the ugliness, you will hear only beauty. You will hear | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| the beauty, creativity and goodness, this inversion creates ugliness, destruction and evil. There have been many names | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| temporary reality and states of consciousness in which ugliness, brutality, cruelty, numbness, limitation of mind -- including | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Ugly........................32 | |
| This mask self presents to us a very ugly color, my dear friends. It is not dark | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| of the fallen spirits has become dark and ugly. Since the great plan was put in operation | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| only to steal from them, or to say ugly things behind their backs, or to kill, or | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that, for the spirit, fear has a very ugly smell? And do you know that your spirit | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| these feelings and emotions drain into a big ugly pool and finally are responsible for all the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| steadily, and therefore reality becomes not only more ugly, but also more remote. The pain of the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| not want to look at are not necessarily ugly or wicked. In the final analysis, arrested growth | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| division and numbness that makes life appear difficult, ugly, removed and senseless. The activation of your real | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| do not care whether it is beautiful or ugly, easy and lighthearted or difficult and heavy -- | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| wonderful, relieving luxury of calmly admitting any undesirable, ugly trait, without in the least disliking yourself for | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| qualities. When you know that, no matter how ugly the traits may be, you will not despair | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| innermost being that enable you to overcome any ugly destructive trait. The power that created the universe | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| and accept anything in you, no matter how ugly, and never lose for one second the sense | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| yourself to this truth, you will detect an ugly side in you, which until this point you | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| distasteful in yourself and others. No matter how ugly some of those manifestations are -- whether it | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and stagnant. Articulate clearly the insight that these ugly traits, whatever they may be, are a power | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| deny any part of yourself, no matter how ugly it may be in its present form. The | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| goodness and inner beauty, while unrealistically overlooking their ugly side. You cannot yet grasp the presence of | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| says, I do not want to have such ugly traits in me. Truth, however, requires both flexibility | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| different situation when you identify yourself with the ugly traits than when you identify them. The moment | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| ultimate reality. It is necessary to acknowledge the ugly aspects as parts of you and take responsibility | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| love, and power. There is no hate so ugly, or negative intentionality so awful, that expressing it | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| ladder of love the minute you admit the ugly truth that you wanted hidden and for which | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| cherished illusion about the self. No matter how ugly the traits may be that gradually ooze out | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the divine and the evil. If you wish | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| accuse the other person, ask yourself, What is ugly in me and what is ugly in him | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| What is ugly in me and what is ugly in him or her? And then ask, What | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| of yourself is never justified, no matter how ugly the traits and attitudes may be that you | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| whole, even though they may momentarily seem painful, ugly and not alive. But when you make the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| experienced as senseless -- and therefore frightening and ugly -- suddenly becomes infused with divine meaning. A | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| The sounds of a lower self are disharmonious, ugly and displeasing to the inner ear. The same | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| existing dishonesty, the cowardice, and all the other ugly little attitudes of the lower self, without ever | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Ulterior....................9 | |
| thing in the right and mature way without ulterior motives and out of free choice, you will | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| self-discipline you do so quite deliberately, with an ulterior motive. So your fear of possessing insufficient reason | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| love but pretend to love, for your own ulterior motives. The key to the universe is real | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| paying the full price, or for some other ulterior motive. I hardly need to emphasize how important | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| new alternatives of seeing a situation, with the ulterior motive to get away from facing blame, accusation | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| for its own sake without hidden thoughts and ulterior motives, your security in your own value will | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| you only appear to give, doing it for ulterior motives, for something you want to gain in | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| to find justification. You give only begrudgingly, with ulterior motives, second thoughts, calculating inner bargains, leaving little | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| for my ego aggrandizement nor for any other ulterior motive or advantage. That thought, that attitude, will | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |