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yourself from the roots of the difficulties by covering them up and pushing them into the unconscious 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
lower self, or your temporary reality, instead of covering it up, because that puts an even greater 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
and shed all the masks and all the covering layers, you will begin to work on the 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
by pushing them into the subconscious, by merely covering them up so that they do not show 21 THE FALL
the Pistis Sophia , whether after giving excerpts and covering the material in about five or six sessions 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
disregard the corner of doubt in yourself by covering it up, the doubt will disappear or not 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
concise words, instead of pushing them aside and covering them up, you will find things you have 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
her life from this particular point of view, covering childhood, adolescence, young adult life, and so on 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
actions and attitudes. You are so successful in covering up these connections that, after a time, it 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
can ever bring success. And a superimposed layer, covering an original wish, is never genuine. Even if 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
lose it. By keeping it locked up and covering it, you continue to suffer. The courage to 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
This then has become a superimposed, false need, covering up the real need. To begin with, he 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
pride oneself on having a positive attitude, thus covering up a negative one. Why is pity destructive 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
struggle out of the state of becoming by covering up what you happen to be now. If 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
are unafraid of involvement; who have no protective covering against experience and feeling. Therefore they love. They 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
is thickly covered with layers of untruth. By covering it even more thickly when you prohibit feelings 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
out of the very problem I am discussing: covering up doubt and hopelessness with a strained faith 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
genuine article. I do not say that the covering layer does not also consist of genuine faith 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
difficulty, merely because someone has shed the earthly covering, the earth-dress, so to speak? There is even 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
of unhealth leads to health, while unawareness or covering up lead further away from health. Now I 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
between them. The barrier lies only in the covering layers. It has been said by some who 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
aim of the personality is in fact destructive. Covering up the more powerful destructive aim can be 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
carried by a sweeping, marvelous strength. Instead of covering up the vulnerable spot, you will bring it 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
direction creates a new world, or psychic sphere, covering the original positive one. Images and forms -- 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
more or less overt or subtle way of covering up your desire for flight. Catch yourself in 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
limitations -- or just because you do so, covering up your fear -- the fulfillment remains elusive 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
truth that gets overemphasized lends itself well to covering up other truths the person is not ready 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
in check the negative reactions and confusions by covering them up, denying their existence, the less you 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
divine kernel created a new layer of consciousness, covering the previous one and thus thickening the wall 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
out to be the original feeling, not the covering one. When you permit yourself the original impact 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
pain is a result of acceptance. Once the covering crust of outer numbness has been removed by 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
will pronounces these words strongly and decisively, without covering up or denying the negative will, but meeting 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
you would indeed create such a rich life. Covering up your lack of faith, your distrust, your 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
faith, your distrust, your negative outlook, and then covering up the means you use to overcome them 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
you find, embedded within a wall of protective covering, the lower-self attitudes, intents, feelings, thoughts and actions 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
growth and search and the false struggle of covering up your hidden insecurity. Decide, again and again 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
God's truth. Otherwise you are superimposing a belief, covering up whatever unconscious material there may exist in 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
constant battle here. One part strongly aims for covering, justifying, projecting, and thereby increasing the lower-self energies 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
 
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to them if they let themselves love. Fear covers your eyes with a heavy veil, so that 4 WORLD WEARINESS
certain conditions, people occasionally lift the veil that covers it and see a small segment of the 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
function well as long as one rationalizes and covers up the true reasons. Such a person has 31 SHAME
This he thinks he knows. In reality he covers up a very different emotion of self-contempt; perhaps 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
subjects. The method I have presented so far covers, briefly speaking, the various lists which I need 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
As yet you are unaware of what it covers. Those of my friends who have reached this 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
you, requests an unlimited amount of love and covers this desire with various other desires, such as 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
unrealistic defensiveness is absent. QUESTION: If the accusation covers a betrayal and you have a natural anger 101 THE DEFENSE
and willingness to relate. In reality this merely covers up your withdrawal, which exists on a much 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
very still so that the inner noise that covers the well of wisdom and love makes itself 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
of genuine conviction and inner experience; false faith covers fear, insecurity, childish needs. In order to establish 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
here, is horizontal, as it were. One layer covers the other. Vertical displacement substitutes one form of 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
you believe that only the superimposed veneer that covers the foreign body gives you the feeling that 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
live center has been experienced. The foreign substance covers this very experience of the real self, the 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
existence of a belief in punishment and reward covers up the deep despair that unselfishness brings deprivation 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
a major block, for the unconsciously held material covers and barricades the cosmic force. The mind believes 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
to others, but only with your masks and covers on. This is not honest contact with another 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
different kind of pretense than the one that covers up lack of integrity, destructiveness, and cruelty. This 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
the ingrained but subtle habits with which one covers up one's inner nakedness. How easy it is 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
courage to be nakedly real without any false covers. You cannot help but succeed if you really 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
the degree, the way it manifests, how one covers it up. The difficulty here is that these 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
role is never innately different from what it covers. It is a hating attitude to pretend being 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
you hold on to the false role that covers up destructive attitudes, the more you will be 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
your the adamant self-annihilation, nor the pretense that covers everything up. Finding this real self is our 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
a forced try, or a sentimentalized emoting that covers up many things you do not wish to 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
may lead to a false, superimposed serenity that covers up a great deal of negative feeling that 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
it is an ongoing law that all false covers must crack and crumble. When outer form exists 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
is painful because it is a struggle that covers up the inner lack of a security that 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
self, the momentary triumph is very shallow and covers a deep despair. Your dual nature is in 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
Resistance to making connections between cause and effect covers the fear and pain that there are no 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
a lifetime, it is joyfully undertaken once the covers fall off, because living in a just and 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
fully reveal itself only when you recognize what covers it up. This step of courage and faith 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
came into this plane. Other parts shed the covers later, one by one. Finally, at one point 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
spirit will stand free and unencumbered, without any covers, any obstructions, any layers that need to be 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
 
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luxury that elicits love. By continually using inner, covert pressure on others because you believe you are 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
a subtle, emotional, and unarticulated fashion. The silent, covert, indirect blame is being launched without a spoken 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
It only harms you when you have a covert concept that it will, and insist that it 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
brings the result, regardless of how subtle and covert it is, hidden, perhaps, beneath a tense, striving 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
that past actions bring effects, nor that inner, covert, hazy attitudes have their inexorable results. They may 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
has disastrous results because it is undermined by covert negativity. On the other hand, an apparently very 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
to go deeper, into still hidden layers of covert evil. There is always the spiral configuration: level 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
it difficult to deal with his or her covert, dominant, and manipulative traits. They are inevitably two 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
become aware first of the overt, then the covert side. When your personality is very adept in 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
this can occur in either the overt or covert way and that you can rule just as 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
of you look at both the overt and covert manifestations of this struggle in you, and see 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
lack of self-assertion, on the one hand, and covert hostility on the other? I could name many 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
of the opinions of others and their possibly covert reasons to exploit you. This selfishness rooted in 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
but it can also be quite subtle and covert, not so easy to detect. Inwardly, in many 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION

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