| Defeated....................4 | |
| place, it is an illusion that you were defeated. Therefore, it is an illusion that you can | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| your pride collapses. You are crushed and feel defeated. To reach perfection -- the heavens -- in | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the greater divine will is negated or unconsciously defeated. This is why there is such a deep | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of not having it and not be annihilated, defeated, unhappy, then the power of such a desire | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Defeatism...................5 | |
| unhealthy way contains, above all, a spirit of defeatism. As I indicated before, the very fear of | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| be very misleading and may encourage false self-sacrifice, defeatism, and self-destructiveness. You will find this point only | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| this is perceived for the first time, hopelessness, defeatism will make room for genuine -- not superimposed | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| false conclusions and short- sighted character attitudes of defeatism that make people so destructive that they would | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| roads you wish to travel, the road of defeatism, denial, negative expectation, or the road of faith | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Defeats.....................15 | |
| giving herself up, of surrendering herself. She thereby defeats her femininity and in the end becomes more | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| human being suffers to the degree that she defeats and discourages the functioning of her femininity. So | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| -- clamors, cries and trembles, the underlying No defeats all efforts and makes the entire process truly | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| motion -- even toward the desired goal -- defeats it, for tension arises from hopelessness, doubt, and | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| act is good. It is always loveless and defeats growth. When you are anchored not in your | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| it should not be denied, for doing so defeats life every bit as much as the feared | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| confusions and pain, is great. But this attitude defeats the purpose; it comes from and leads to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| self is betrayed and the seeking of recognition defeats itself. This path is geared to finding this | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| very definitive movement in you. And every must defeats healthy desire, therefore not allowing fulfillment. For a | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| wish it on your own ego terms which defeats the very act of self-surrender, you will want | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| is what I meant by saying that imbalance defeats itself. You need to conceive of yourself as | 228 BALANCE |
| become perfect at the expense of others obviously defeats your very aim, for nothing could be less | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| You become the slave of unreality, and reality defeats you. I suggest to all of you, my | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| they often ignore that other level, where struggle defeats the purpose and only ripples the waters more | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| momentary pleasure, because that, in the long run, defeats you. True maturity -- health and selfhood -- | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Defect......................10 | |
| whole picture of the vicious circle, how one defect is caused by another in a chain reaction | 36 PRAYER |
| and evil, for neurosis always means a character defect. You have found, and are bound to see | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| good and cringes from it. That very character defect makes the personality unable to cope with the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| within yourself must be linked with a character defect you have not really faced, nor do you | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| morality because one is so unhappy about the defect. The genuine desire to transform defects is never | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| or despair about your ability to transform the defect, know that on a deeper level of your | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| will be no obstruction to transforming a character defect, and consequently no obstruction to the unlimited abundance | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| persisting negativity. There must be a corresponding character defect that is equally difficult to give up. For | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| are blocked, and then question what particular character defect does not permit you to abandon a self-destructive | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| being able to quietly see oneself in the defect. Only then is one able to perceive the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| Defective...................4 | |
| still so insecure that you resort to such defective defensive measures. This behavior falls into the same | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the fear of letting go of familiar, although defective, behavior patterns. If you still find yourself in | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| solid, beautiful, and of excellent quality. Some is defective, a cheap imitation, and rotten. When these two | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| simultaneously both creative and destructive, as far as defective soul material is concerned. The eternal, ultimate, essentially | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Defects.....................23 | |
| vicious circle consists of a multiplicity of character defects which, at various points, will draw together and | 36 PRAYER |
| realizing that all these are, in essence, character defects. In your confusion, you see in each of | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is only in theory, and they hope such defects to be dissolved by a comfortable intervention of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| all, do not wish to transform their character defects. The actual -- not theoretical -- activation of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| such integration is possible only when certain character defects have been already transformed or when the person | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| have concentrated on finding the errors, misconceptions, and defects which are, of course, interdependent. In fact, we | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| A person who genuinely desires to transform character defects is not in the least concerned with outer | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| about the defect. The genuine desire to transform defects is never burdened by an unpleasant admission of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| had to be primarily concerned with uncovering your defects and illusions, your negativity or destructiveness, which you | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Why do you still refuse to transform these defects? The moment you are truly ready to transform | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| The more you are willing to truly transform defects, the less necessary the outer, superimposed values become | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| the good of the universe only when your defects are being overcome may, at first glance, appear | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| When you take on the transformation of your defects, you will like yourself sufficiently to open yourself | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| all that lives, then, indeed, overcoming of character defects is unnecessary. Subscribing to a nihilistic philosophy of | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| cheat life, no matter how subtly. All character defects have to be removed. And when I say | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| them, without plunging into despair and denying the defects. This attitude in itself removes the defects infinitely | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the defects. This attitude in itself removes the defects infinitely more effectively than any other approach. In | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| a question of first having to remove the defects so that then something else can happen. It | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| made up of all your deceits, your character defects, your illusions, pretenses and destructiveness. Then I discussed | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| lower self, that you have faults and character defects. You may have even faced many of them | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| exists a connection between the latter and character defects, images, misconceptions, and destructive feelings. It is an | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to manifest or denied and repressed. If character defects deform one's sexual drive into cruel, destructive fantasies | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| vision and thus begin to dissolve your personality defects and blocks. As always, this process begins with | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Defend......................75 | |
| wife and children without defending them. He must defend those he loves and evil has to be | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| if a man goes to war simply to defend his country, this will not count against him | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| only the part he is called upon to defend? ANSWER: In the first place, a man is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| use it. You all know that lawyers can defend a case from two entirely different sides. They | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| you may continue to believe, the better you defend him, the worse you come out. After the | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| your inner walls of defense. What do you defend? Why do you have to defend yourself? Ask | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| do you defend? Why do you have to defend yourself? Ask yourself such questions when you feel | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| means by which you try to force or defend against these wrong conclusions, are unreal. All the | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| what you want. Nor do you have to defend yourself against constant defeat -- another supposed fact | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| of the trait in question, nor will you defend yourself against it with the excuse that it | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| because you know it and you think you defend it by continuing to close your eyes to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| brings you the very thing you wish to defend against, such promises to yourself would be useless | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certain needs are forbidden and wrong, and thus defend against these needs in yourself. I am not | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| -- than you normally have in order to defend yourself. Or you will quickly judge and decide | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to ward off an imaginary danger and to defend yourself from it. Thus the same processes are | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| emotions produce the necessary impetus and strength to defend yourself. All other emotions are withdrawn at that | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| sorts of other feelings, the necessary strength to defend yourself would be absent. However, when the danger | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| aware of its permanent existence. You not only defend against hurt as a supposed mortal danger, but | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you unknowingly reject them. Therefore you need to defend yourself more, and two full- fledged vicious circles | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| parties to mutually reject each other. While you defend yourself unnecessarily because no actual danger exists, you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| that the criticism, against which you so strenuously defend yourself, often threatens to expose something you do | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| be loved and worthy of respect, and you defend yourself against what is true, even though the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is often truth itself, my friends. And you defend against it by pointing out the truth in | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| of an attack against which you have to defend, often makes you fear and dislike others. So | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is focused on one small point as you defend yourself against an imaginary danger. In this state | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| own. When you discover that the need to defend yourself is an illusion and stop defending, the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| not mean to imply that you must never defend yourself against a flagrant lie, or harmful rumor | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| discussed. In your fear of being hurt, you defend yourself by becoming lazy and indifferent towards everything | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| So there is not enough energy left to defend yourself against being taken advantage of, to develop | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| people had fewer means at their disposal to defend themselves against the injustice and brute force of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| idealized self-image. With these the person hopes to defend against what he or she is afraid of | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the position of the child you so ferociously defend, then a breakthrough on this path, a coming | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| matter how you struggle, no matter how you defend yourself, you must entangle yourself deeper into a | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| are a struggle against this false premise. To defend yourself against this dreaded happening, you build an | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| assume the role of giants against whom you defend yourself. This may take the form of rejecting | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| self-preservation will most certainly make them fight and defend themselves against such occurrence, whether by counterattack or | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| set out to do so. But you jealously defend this secret, and in this defense you alienate | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| and the dualistic belief wherein human beings must defend themselves against life by withholding the best they | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| they proceed to toughen this vulnerable spot to defend themselves against its soft openness. By these various | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| is also still relatively accessible. You think you defend it by separating it from your ego and | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| is almost the only weapon with which to defend yourself against such a world. Therefore you must | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| will set you free to have integrity, to defend and assert your rights, while negation and destructiveness | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| life as a hostile force, as something to defend yourself against. When on your path you reach | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| hostile, a force against which one needs to defend. This defense must exclude all attitudes of openness | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| working against you, from which you need to defend yourself? Or, finally, is life neutral and indifferent | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| very different way from that which you vaguely defend against in yourself. Such weakness is always a | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| bound to be destructive and are geared to defend something that does not exist. Hence, the results | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| which you naturally fear, wish to avoid, and defend yourself against. When you use most of your | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you use most of your psychic energies to defend yourself against possible negative experience, your motivation is | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| grant it to you. You are unable to defend yourself in an adequate way in such cases | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| deep, warm feelings of love, find how you defend yourself against any negative feeling and experience. There | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| of hazard, against which one thinks one must defend the self, becoming still further alienated from the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| defense that is more destructive than whatever they defend against in themselves. Your inability to cope with | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| human beings try to avoid undesirable experience. They defend against it and thus make themselves more prone | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| with your pretenses and masks. You did not defend yourself against unpleasant feelings by being critical and | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you no longer need to deny, project, and defend against this evil part, when you can clearly | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| do this, the less you will need to defend yourself against the pain, and therefore against the | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| toward yourself. You no longer require yourself to defend your defenses or to pretend to be so | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| you know exist inside of yourself. Actually you defend against establishing a connecting link between those feelings | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| your inner being has anything to cover up, defend, or protect, then the full potential of your | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| relaxed state of soul and mind. If you defend against an undesirable feeling or experience, you automatically | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of the path, or for those who still defend against fully assuming responsibility for their lives and | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| areas within me where I still battle and defend against either the painful or the loving feelings | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| by others. You have learned to no longer defend quite so much against such pain, and more | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| If a life situation is painful and you defend with rage, complaints, and other defenses against cleanly | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| and love them. You need never fear and defend against others with your destructive ego defenses. Outer | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| where you hate the opposite sex. You also defend yourself against recognizing this by blaming, accusing, resenting | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| you were uncertain before, where you needed to defend your uncertainty, where you were truly groping in | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| can only continue to block this knowledge and defend against it. As you know, it is precisely | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| yourself deeply, where do you still resist and defend, where do you hold on and have a | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the only reasons for not being able to defend yourself against abuse. When you speak and think | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you very vulnerable. You must then guard and defend an unrightful position of leadership. The ability to | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| your friends and helpers confront you, when you defend against even the possibility of that with which | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| and become acutely conscious of them. If you defend against pain even on the deepest possible psychic | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| up and fight for a good cause, to defend a right position, to assert justified claims, is | 254 SURRENDER |