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oneself. It is easier to feel like a victim. That way one does not have to search 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
have caused events of which you seemed the victim, you will gain the certainty that you are 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
puzzling to the active partner as to the victim. They do not understand themselves. The unfaithful one 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
of acceptance fosters martyrdom, seeing oneself as the victim. One extreme always creates another. Thus the healthy 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
you the recognition that you are not a victim; that you have power over your life; that 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
it? Am I or am I not a victim of the arbitrary choice of my fellow-creature's free 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
is my fault, how much I became the victim of circumstances over which I have no control 53 SELF-LOVE
thing he has so painfully experienced as a victim. Therefore the hurt is double. The betrayal would 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
eliminate your fear of others, of becoming a victim. You could link up all unfavorable incidents with 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
your being, you like to consider yourself a victim for the very reason I stated previously. This 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
to be afraid of. You are not the victim of others; you do not have to fight 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
It is not true that you are the victim of intangible forces inside or outside of yourself 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
will then become aware that you are the victim of these thoughts. This awareness will bring you 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
and you will no longer consider yourself the victim of injustice. QUESTION: How can I make the 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
life, you will believe you are an innocent victim; you will feel persecuted and unjustly treated; you 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
a whole. You feel that you are the victim of other people's influence on you and of 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
exposed to others, while one is a helpless victim. All this contributes greatly to the unconscious desire 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
be convinced that no one is a helpless victim, that you all create your own life and 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
and actually becomes a prey, behaving like a victim when he actually is not. This condition can 101 THE DEFENSE
hope and security. It eliminates feeling an innocent victim of circumstances beyond your control. By understanding a 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
your control, that you are not a persecuted victim of an unfair and unkind fate, that you 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
a prey to it, nor are you a victim of your doubt. It is necessary to take 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
the future. When one feels one is a victim of fate, of powers outside one's control, one 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
you do not allow yourself to be a victim of your negativity and destructiveness. Simply declaring your 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
which the individual feels singled out as a victim. It is inevitable to feel helpless when one 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
your reach; hence you are not a helpless victim of it. for it is within the realm 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
here that does not make you an innocent victim, that does not make you helpless to construct 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
tension and suffering infinitely greater. One feels a victim of hazard, against which one thinks one must 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
unrealistic as the illusion of being life's passive victim. Accepting your own limitations and the limitations of 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
just that way. You are never an innocent victim, and society itself is but the sum total 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
even if only by pretending you are a victim. But you must analyze it exactly and comprehend 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
is a hating attitude to pretend being a victim of the hate of others. This is only 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
so that he felt himself to be a victim of circumstances beyond his control. But there were 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
in this guilt-shifting game. But how about the victim? How is that person to cope? As a 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
How is that person to cope? As a victim, your first problem is that you are not 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
The only way you can avoid becoming a victim of blame and guilt projection is to avoid 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
the other in order to make yourself the victim on the emotional level is tantamount to the 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
and purpose, rather than that of a helpless victim who is led to slaughter. Your fear, my 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
eventually shed the illusion of being an innocent victim and avail yourself of the key to freedom 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
find yourself in the position of a persecuted victim. The stronger your disinclination to admit the negative 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
to the illusion that you are an innocent victim. But what unhappiness you buy with this illusion 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
punish you most effectively by making myself the victim, so you cannot blame or catch me. Suppose 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
this and is now established as the innocent victim. If you admit your similar unfair demands, your 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
a trapped animal. But you are your own victim. You have trapped yourself by choosing not to 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
and antagonistic to you, while you are its victim. In that delusion you cannot create. So you 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
unpredictable character. You truly seem to be a victim of circumstances beyond your sphere of influence. This 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
have in maintaining the fiction of being a victim of life diminishes in the ratio in which 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
is in you. Yet you are still a victim of the fluctuations of your own moods. This 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
the suffering person is seen as an innocent victim. The call for self-responsibility is still confused with 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
What is the positive origin of playing the victim game? ANSWER: The distortion is self-exoneration at the 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
at the expense of making others guilty, whose victim you profess to be. The truth is the 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
all personal responsibility. Thus you find yourself a victim. When you look deep inside you, after having 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
main value? Woman could not simply be a victim of man's egotistical desires to feel superior and 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
resent and blame male authority and play the victim game. Similarly, to the degree man does not 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
with apparent justification. The woman will use the victim game; the man will use the blame and 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
reverse this pattern. They seem to be its victim and do not realize how they directly created 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
further consequences, either for himself or for his victim. It will not occur to him to search 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
of the defense would entail giving up the victim and blame game. It would entail accepting part 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
between the self that perpetrates suffering and the victim who suffers is so great that the perpetrator 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
that identifies with what appears to be a victim. This living, healthy, loving pain is also the 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
guilt on you now and necessarily make a victim out of the previous villain, but you probably 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
 
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your feelings of insecurity and self-doubt, injustice and victimization. Let us look into this subject and gain 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
is underneath your particular facade of blame and victimization, in whatever guise it may appear. Your feelings 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
with all its complaints, accusations, and sense of victimization. Being true to yourself dispenses with the tendency 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
what is happening. Most of the time, the victimization happens in a subtle, emotional, and unarticulated fashion 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
get away from facing blame, accusation, and self-justifying victimization, this may lead to a false, superimposed serenity 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
no longer exchange it for the untruth of victimization. The more you enter this new state, the 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
 
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attack, and the more he will tend to victimize himself and become a martyr. There exists a 101 THE DEFENSE
it up. Others are out to hurt, to victimize, to exploit you. If you open your heart 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
Let us say, you are convinced that circumstances victimize you, that other people are doing you a 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
 
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in yourself, you will automatically cease to feel victimized. Although a part of you enjoys just that 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
wrong of the other person that you feel victimized by it. You put blame on everybody left 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
of view of how you truly feel yourself victimized, a prey to circumstances. Then observe how you 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
at times, but you will not feel insecure, victimized and uncertain about yourself. That is a difference 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
to recognize. The person feels unfairly treated, exploited, victimized, resentful, while still being unable to stop the 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
of life, and the less you will feel victimized, helpless, and weak. When an entity is not 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
then complain about the results and feel yourself victimized. As long as you waste your energies on 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
you waste your energies on complaining and feeling victimized you are in a vicious circle. The destructive 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
false sense of goodness, the spirit of being victimized, that takes hold of the psyche of the 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
wants. The helplessness and the feeling of being victimized are themselves misconceptions. The false blame launched against 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
will produce bitterness and the sense of being victimized. Choosing to feel victimized only increases blindness and 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
the sense of being victimized. Choosing to feel victimized only increases blindness and makes us retain the 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
Not knowing this will make you feel constantly victimized by circumstances beyond your control. In order to 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
generous in dispensing with the temptation to feel victimized and accusatory. With this attitude, you become active 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
His hatred grows to the extent he feels victimized and helplessly entrapped in his own prison. His 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
being done to you and will therefore become victimized by it. The mere awareness will make all 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
all-important key. You cannot ever feel helpless or victimized when the significant transition has taken place in 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
of your self-determining power. You no longer feel victimized and can set out to investigate the motivations 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
thoughts. More specifically, the personality invariably feels unjustly victimized, blames others or life, is resentful, withdraws good 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
and omnipotence, in the illusion that others are victimized by your incompleteness. Conversely, the moment you fully 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
polluted energy, of other people, thus they remain victimized and dependent. It is as though they expressed 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
not -- makes you blame, accuse, and feel victimized. In turn you feel justified to hate, resent 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
impossible to feel quite so helpless, anxious, afraid, victimized, and hopeless. Even if the personality still doubts 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
deny this process and choose instead to feel victimized by life because of the pain you yourself 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
it. You have just given in and become victimized by your own lower self. But this need 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
was caused by obstructing the movement will feel victimized by it and will insist that everything is 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
old relationships between man and woman, the woman victimized herself by acting out a denial of self-responsibility 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
vision of the universe, in fears, in feeling victimized. It can also manifest in resentment, blame, hostility 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
and that they who are less greedy are victimized by the greedy. Both extremes can abuse this 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
led to lack of self-responsibility. Thus humanity felt victimized by evil spirits. Fear of them often led 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL

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