| Covertly....................5 | |
| attitude, whatever it may be, no matter how covertly it manifests outwardly, you institute an entirely new | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| are not self-responsible, no matter how subtly and covertly this may be done. There is a mechanism | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-pity, resentment, complaining, and accusing -- overtly or covertly -- in your emotional reactions and expressions. The | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| in the concealed hatred and brutality that manifests covertly in sexual expressions, whether or not one admits | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| overgrown ego makes its claims constantly, overtly or covertly. But when it comes to your real greatness | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Cover-up....................3 | |
| self-condemnation. Finding excuses and explanations would be a cover-up for the self-condemnation. Now, separate these two aspects | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| unresolved problems. But it does not include the cover-up for the unresolved problems, the pseudo-solutions, or the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| veneer that gave the appearance of love. Such cover-up is often mere self-deception, since most of the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Coverups....................4 | |
| have found so far are superficial levels and coverups for the real guilt. The proof of this | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| what you reject and dislike in yourself. These coverups are actually infinitely more insidious and damaging than | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| But when you are still involved in the coverups, the roles and the games, you cannot get | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| helper, to convince him or her that your coverups are valid. But the other part of you | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Covet.......................4 | |
| its deeper meaning from past lectures. If you covet something you do not possess you blind yourself | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Under these circumstances, you may envy others and covet what they have, because you cannot resolve your | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| which keep you from fulfilling yourself. What you covet may be a substitute for your real needs | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you can genuinely wish to obtain what you covet and be prepared to pay the price. You | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Covetousness................4 | |
| separateness is self-explanatory. The second cardinal sin is COVETOUSNESS -- greed. Again, you know its deeper meaning | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| needs of which you may not be aware. Covetousness, as well as pride, separates you from others | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| have covered it before. What I said about covetousness also applies to envy. I have discussed envy | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| they seem like opposites, like sloth contrasted with covetousness or with gluttony. They are not exact opposites | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Cowardice...................46 | |
| tightly to the ego with its self-pity, vanity, cowardice and pride -- in short, everything that nurtures | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| myself and will not recoil from it in cowardice, vanity, and oversensitivity, will indeed receive the truth | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| fullness of life means to enter life without cowardice, to open yourself to everything life may bring | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| learn from it? Help me to overcome my cowardice. Let me meet life with all its pains | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| to overcome your ego, pride, fear, and the cowardice that allows you to cheat. If you overcome | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| flinch from unhappiness in distorted self-love, self-pity, and cowardice. If you learn from the hard times and | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| pray for strength and understanding to overcome your cowardice to face yourself and to overcome your resistance | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is a right and proper kind of self-love. Cowardice is nothing but self-pampering, self- pitying self-concern. Courage | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| actually misapplied goodwill. But it consists also of cowardice, pride, self-will, and impatience. Your impatience mounts because | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| are convinced that there is no trace of cowardice in you. So that when you do come | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| when you do come across a streak of cowardice in yourself, you may reject the discovery because | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| fulfill God's will can coexist with a certain cowardice and refusal to assume self-responsibility. I am only | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the wrong direction; it stands for dishonesty, hypocrisy, cowardice, avarice, selfishness, egocentricity, separateness. The static principle in | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| man doesn't communicate with a woman out of cowardice, what would be the corresponding feature to look | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| could also correspond to a different kind of cowardice on another level in the woman in question | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| and understanding to be able to overcome your cowardice to face yourself, to overcome your resistance to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Where the truth is blurred by your fear, cowardice and the erroneous belief that life can be | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| than you would have without such evasion and cowardice. The bargain you wanted to make by assuming | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| emotionally you may be plunged in darkness, rebellion, cowardice and self-pity -- the outcome will be happiness | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| also happen out of negative motives, such as cowardice, fear, indifference, opportunism, resignation. This would then be | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| The so-called neurosis always contains selfishness, greed, pride, cowardice, egocentricity, and ruthlessness in one form or another | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| self-indulgence and self-hate, both of which derive from cowardice, pride, lack of self-responsibility, and the will not | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| onto another, seeing in that person your own cowardice and hidden rebellion. Therefore it is an utterly | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the psyche, such as selfishness, egocentricity, fearfulness and cowardice. Every time even a particle of these obstructions | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| unawareness of the original need. Both contain the cowardice that prevents people from finding that need and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| self-will and fear, your separateness, petty self-pampering and cowardice surround you with a wall of isolation when | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| give your best, be it due to fear, cowardice, pride, betrayal, and other misconceptions, all of which | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| same tendencies operate in both. Do not overlook cowardice. One may omit a constructive deed out of | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| One may omit a constructive deed out of cowardice, but one may just as well commit a | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| Simply declaring your vigorous intent to not let cowardice and fear defeat you will set those powers | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| laws for granted is always a matter of cowardice. Lack of courage induces an individual to rote | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| outwardly seems courageously defiant, may be tainted with cowardice and opportunism. The laziness of not thinking through | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| laziness per se. It is always tainted by cowardice, a conformity to a specific group of people | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| reason for self-dislike is, at least partly, the cowardice to sell out the truth for the convenience | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| yourself up in a place of pride. The cowardice that feeds conformity is the same as the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| Vagueness and not looking at your pride and cowardice prevent you from reaching this natural life. Each | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| When the present is fully acknowledged, pride and cowardice will drop away without effort. Cowardice, in its | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| pride and cowardice will drop away without effort. Cowardice, in its compliance and conformity, self-negation and denial | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| submission only happens out of fear and greed, cowardice and opportunism. Thus outer morality is not necessarily | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| your pride, your investment in your pretense, your cowardice. When you admit your negative intentionality you perform | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| If you admit your similar unfair demands, your cowardice in giving your feelings, and your negative intentionality | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| you also see the still existing dishonesty, the cowardice, and all the other ugly little attitudes of | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| I shall attempt to show you now how cowardice is just as evil as active perpetration of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| as evil as active perpetration of evil. Spiritual cowardice not only leads to betrayal of the best | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| and even pretending to be good, when one's cowardice and self-serving gives silent permission to the evil | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| ability to choose faith over fear, courage over cowardice. For what requires more courage than believing in | 254 SURRENDER |
| Cowardly....................10 | |
| conditions, they come face to face with the cowardly part of their personality. This realization may come | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| proven their courage. Yet their discovery of certain cowardly emotional reactions is also valid. So it is | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of you are still too weak and too cowardly to see the truth in others, as well | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you can be, is the result of such cowardly evasion, such a wrong solution. Using such evasive | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| people are too lazy to think and too cowardly to make their own decisions based on their | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the motivations may be selfish, vain, unloving, and cowardly. One may conform to all the rules and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| brought out. You will then find that a cowardly opportunism exists wherever you shy away from your | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| my integrity, all untruthfulness and role playing, all cowardly defenses, all self-centeredness that makes me treat others | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| result of your withholding and spiteful or perhaps cowardly non-giving. You choose to ignore that others cannot | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| is often associated with evil, while the weak, cowardly person is associated with mildness, gentleness, goodness. Nothing | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Co-worker...................4 | |
| service to God's great plan, to become His co-worker. All you will need is readiness; the how | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| by trying to appear superior. Your partner or co-worker will do the same for you. So try | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the person you have chosen as your spiritual co-worker, because not all people who come here know | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| who have not found as yet the right co-worker, as we might call it, can pray for | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |