| many confusing theories about the function of the ego. According to some the ego is essentially negative | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| function of the ego. According to some the ego is essentially negative and undesirable and the spiritual | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| those that characterize psychoanalytic thinking, say that the ego is important. The scientific view is that where | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| scientific view is that where there is no ego, there can be no mental health. These are | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| so, what then is the function of the ego, meaning by this word the outer level of | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| this word the outer level of personality? The ego level is more accessible to you and you | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| acutely and more directly aware of it. The ego is the part that thinks, acts, discriminates, and | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| thinks, acts, discriminates, and decides. The person whose ego has not sufficiently grown, whose ego is weak | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| person whose ego has not sufficiently grown, whose ego is weak, is incapable of mastering or coping | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| or coping with life. And the person whose ego is overgrown and overemphasized cannot come to the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| conflicts always result from either too big an ego or too small an ego. It cannot be | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| too big an ego or too small an ego. It cannot be said that one person has | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| said that one person has too big an ego and another too small or too weak an | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| and another too small or too weak an ego. Although this is so at times, most often | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| out the disturbance resulting from too weak an ego. Only when the ego is sufficiently developed can | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| from too weak an ego. Only when the ego is sufficiently developed can it be adequately dispensed | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| friends, but it is not. For if the ego is underdeveloped, your efforts to compensate create a | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| produce only more weakness. As long as the ego is not strong enough, you lack the faculties | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| self by rejecting the development of a healthy ego, does so out of poverty. Such people do | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| Perhaps they know that their outer self, or ego, is ceasing to be necessary, so they try | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| try to skip the creation of a healthy ego. This may be due to laziness since ego | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| ego. This may be due to laziness since ego development is so difficult, and they hope that | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| are fully possessed of your outer self, your ego, can you dispense with it and reach your | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| of weakness, need and poverty. Only when the ego is healthy and strong can you know that | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| Only when you possess a strong and healthy ego that is not overgrown and overemphasized, can you | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| not overgrown and overemphasized, can you use this ego to transcend itself and reach a further state | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| instance, to use all the faculties of your ego to reach beyond it. What you absorb from | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| you absorb from outside must first pass your ego faculties. In practical terms: you first reach out | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| practical terms: you first reach out with your ego faculties and use them to grasp truths that | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| not realize that there is anything beyond the ego. Their final goal is to cultivate a strong | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| Their final goal is to cultivate a strong ego, whether or not they think about it in | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| lead them to the distortion of an over-developed ego. It is a dead-end street: the goal is | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| instead of transcending the stage of the powerful ego, one's energies are used to further aggrandize it | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the topic under discussion: the function of the ego in relation to the real self. The real | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the real self quite clearly even without the ego. But without the ego the meaning of the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| clearly even without the ego. But without the ego the meaning of the message must be distorted | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| child at birth does not yet possess an ego. It seeks omnipotence, pleasure supreme, the ultimate bliss | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| neither lack nor unfulfillment or frustration. Without an ego these strivings are unrealistic, even destructive. You all | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| that is flawed because of a lack of ego. You all have to learn to let go | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| earthly reality. For dealing with this dimension the ego faculties are necessary. Only when your ego deals | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the ego faculties are necessary. Only when your ego deals adequately with the realm in which your | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| utter power, and utter pleasure. In the underdeveloped ego, these desires are not only illusory but selfish | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| produces more poverty and need. The healthy, strong ego knows reality without being upset that fulfillment may | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the obstructions to the real self. The weak ego considers itself annihilated when its wishes for omnipotence | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| clutch to laws and conditions of the little ego, thereby distorting the greater laws. Out of need | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| greater laws. Out of need and weakness the ego forgoes the strength and fullness that comes when | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| you will not fear and consequently overemphasize your ego faculties. Nor will you leave important underdeveloped ego | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| ego faculties. Nor will you leave important underdeveloped ego faculties to slumber, untended. Are there any questions | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| after artificially because the task of developing the ego seems too difficult, it is not the true | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| difficult, it is not the true way. The ego must be mastered. When I say the ego | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| ego must be mastered. When I say the ego, I mean everything it has to deal with | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| is an error. The struggle corresponds to the ego. Only after struggle has been positively accepted will | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| leaves important potentials in the psyche and the ego untended, unexplored. After acceptance of the struggle, people | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| Regarding the overdeveloped and underdeveloped parts of the ego: would they be connected with overactivity and passivity | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| passivity, respectively? ANSWER: Yes. The functions of the ego further the state of becoming, while the real | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| go and trust in God, is where my ego is overdeveloped. Where I fear self-responsibility, that is | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| Where I fear self-responsibility, that is where my ego is underdeveloped. Is that correct? ANSWER: Indeed. Where | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| where you lean on ready-made rules, there your ego is not sufficiently developed. And here you have | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| one distortion creates an opposite distortion. Because your ego is underdeveloped in the areas you mentioned, something | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| wrong way, by not relying on your discriminating ego to make your own decisions. Rather you choose | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| must first determine to become a strong, self-responsible ego, an ego that is mature enough on all | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| determine to become a strong, self-responsible ego, an ego that is mature enough on all levels. Of | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| if you refuse to become a strong enough ego that adequately deals with the immediate issues around | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| you want to do it with your outer ego deficiencies. In this case the ego cannot adequately | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| your outer ego deficiencies. In this case the ego cannot adequately serve you. To want it now | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| a gross misunderstanding of the functions of the ego. You use your ego where it cannot serve | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the functions of the ego. You use your ego where it cannot serve you, and you refuse | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| with the limited scope and vision of the ego, rather than through letting that most real part | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| can let go of this part of your ego only when you have understood these things and | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| understood these things and when you use the ego faculties in their proper way, even getting out | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| with, self-trust grows, and positive chain reactions between ego, real self, and universal forces are set in | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| set in motion. When you reach into the ego world with your ego faculties, you limit yourself | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| you reach into the ego world with your ego faculties, you limit yourself. Reaching out into the | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| must be done by a decision of the ego, but not with ego limitations. You must reach | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| a decision of the ego, but not with ego limitations. You must reach into another realm. This | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| reach into another realm. This is where the ego must be abandoned. This was the essence of | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| of this lecture. The giving up of the ego can happen only when you fully possess it | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| when you fully possess it. QUESTION: Isn't the ego connected with selfwill? ANSWER: Indeed. False ideas, as | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| as selfwill, are naturally a result of the ego world, and not of the real self. But | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| it is also within the power of the ego to give up both selfwill and false ideas | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| up both selfwill and false ideas. Only the ego can do so. The ego plays a necessary | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| ideas. Only the ego can do so. The ego plays a necessary part in changing its own | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| does have selfwill. It is up to the ego to maintain or abandon either of these two | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| maintain or abandon either of these two. The ego alone is capable of exchanging the false idea | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| that you truly wish to find it. Your ego faculties will help you to shed the guilt-producing | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| should you so desire. This will strengthen your ego. Then you will succeed. You will no longer | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| then take hold of yourself by using your ego in the proper way. Bring your personal problems | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| will. You can determine with your outer, or ego self, when and how to use certain muscles | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| are under the direct control of your outer ego. But there is a vast area of your | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| thus misdirect the will faculties of your outer ego. Those of you, my friends, who have grown | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| cannot, happen through a rigid tightening of the ego forces -- of will, or mind, or reasoning | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| eventually becomes direct. To be more specific: your ego faculties have to be used, but not in | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the inner person, you will not waste valuable ego energy. Instead, you will use your outer mind | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| overlooked is that the limitations of the outer ego faculties exist only as long as you fail | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| as you fail to understand that these same ego faculties must be used to directly contact the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| -- when to let go of the outer ego faculties, when to relinquish tight over-control, and when | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| who has to be contacted with the outer, ego faculties of will and mind. This should be | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| way to approach the relationship between the outer ego faculties of mind and will and the inner | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| in the inner person, not in the outer ego self. The extent of the realization of your | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| this, as you use your will and your ego faculties in this constructive manner, the real change | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| longer separated from your conscious will. Thus your ego integrates with a part of yourself that has | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| you into blind alleys. But now the wiser ego can determine the way. The struggle between the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| determine the way. The struggle between the educated ego and the indwelling destructive element ceases as soon | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| destructive element ceases as soon as the outer ego is able to recognize its oneness with the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| and the Divine activates and moves the conscious ego more and more, until the ego becomes one | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the conscious ego more and more, until the ego becomes one with it. Consider any momentary undesirable | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| and effect and cultivate it with your conscious ego. As you own up to the negative aspects | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| and realistic understanding -- that is, a mature ego -- the child cannot handle this soft, malleable | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the child grows into an adult, when the ego becomes mature, the separation becomes an unfortunate handicap | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| it again and integrate it with the adult ego does the personality become whole and equipped to | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| a conscious aspect, to be integrated with the ego. If this integration is hindered due to misunderstanding | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| begins to manifest only after integration with the ego. In the child state, the inner center is | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| meditations, integration between the live center and the ego will take place, so that its substance will | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| yourself in the predicament of possessing an adult ego with all its faculties intact, yet separated from | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| a separation between the live center and the ego. To put it in more practical terms, cruelty | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| begin to integrate the vulnerable spot with the ego, you are accomplishing the goal of your evolutionary | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| you defend it by separating it from your ego and trying to numb it by cruelty. On | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| this means relinquishing the importance of the little ego. The desire to be with others instead of | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| it does not come by itself, unless the ego wishes for it. Only then can all your | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| exists in any creative state in which the ego is not very strongly tied to the inner | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| brought about by sickness or drugs. When the ego is lost because it is too weak, it | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| unhealthy. But when you have gained a healthy ego, you must come to the point where you | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| universal forces. By letting go of the little ego, you will become more of an individual and | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| nucleus, this harmony cannot be established. The outer ego has become too strong. Too much trust has | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| given a chance and with which the outer ego must eventually integrate for harmonious functioning to occur | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| for harmonious functioning to occur. When the outer ego is overemphasized, the result is separation from the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| when you give yourself up to it, your ego will not cease to be. It will truly | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO Greetings, my dearest friends. Blessings for every one | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the fear of letting go of one's outer ego faculties. By the same token, the longing for | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| be a longing to be released from these ego faculties. While we have discussed this topic in | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the fear of letting go of one's little ego. As you have heard me say about so | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| same with the letting go of the outer ego. Such letting go can happen in a distorted | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| be clear about what I mean by the ego faculties. These are the capacities you have direct | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| When the will is not used sufficiently, the ego gradually weakens. When the will is overexerted, it | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| dangerous. To properly let go a healthy, balanced ego is needed, not indoctrinated with false concepts, false | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| fears, and destructive attitudes. Only then can the ego give up the direct, over-tight control with the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| harmony that comes from letting go of the ego faculties stems from the knowledge deep down in | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| of letting go to some degree of the ego faculties with their too tight control. All creative | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| integration, you must learn to use your conscious ego for the purpose of activating your inner self | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| between when and how to use the outer ego, and when to let it step aside. All | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| self. It can never come from the outer ego, unless the ego is already integrated with the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| never come from the outer ego, unless the ego is already integrated with the inner self. All | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| The fear of letting go of the outer ego faculties is a further result of the misconception | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| that life can be maintained only when the ego is tightly held together. What does life mean | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| of identity is associated exclusively with the outer ego faculties of direct volitional thinking and willing. Because | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| this misidentification you fear losing yourself without the ego faculties. Loss of ego means death to you | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| losing yourself without the ego faculties. Loss of ego means death to you because you feel nonexistent | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| temporarily into a state of holding onto the ego too tightly until it learns to reestablish the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| its evolution, humanity has overconcentrated on using the ego faculties only, so that people cannot get beyond | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| seemingly solid wall of matter that, as the ego perceives it, separates them from life. Thus you | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| of course true that a weak and ineffectual ego diminishes your sense of individuality. Hence the ego | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| ego diminishes your sense of individuality. Hence the ego must be strengthened, but for the sole purpose | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| self. Putting your identity exclusively into the outer ego, you must fear to let it go. To | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| cannot come into being. Any overexertion of the ego prevents real experience. All really beautiful, valid, constructive | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| comes from a perfect balance between the volitional ego and the non- volitional self. The latter manifests | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the state of perfect integration between the outer ego faculties and the inner, non-volitional self must exist | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the deep psyche. The destiny of integrating the ego with the deeper self simultaneously becomes your greatest | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| where its strict control does not allow the ego to step aside and let the inner self | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the universe. The most extreme forms of releasing ego over-functioning are alcoholism and drug addiction. Less extreme | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |