| hollow and leave you exhausted and dissatisfied. The ego cannot add deep feelings and a deep flavor | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| can it produce profound and creative wisdom. The ego can only memorize, learn, collect other people's creative | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| everyone's life. If you predominantly identify with your ego, your fear of death is really quite justified | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of death is really quite justified, for the ego dies indeed. This may sound like a frightening | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| for so many by identifying only with the ego. This is why no human being who has | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| This cannot be explained by the logic the ego is used to; such logic is much too | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| A vicious circle comes into existence when the ego is given undue importance in one's sense of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| being in oneself but the reality of the ego, one cannot, of course, experience the higher faculties | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| perfectly well how inferior, fleeting, and insufficient the ego is as compared to the reality of the | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| sense of self is exclusively attached to the ego self. I want to add here that an | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| sense of identification is exclusively attached to the ego. For the ego's capacities to cope with life | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| none of this can be said about the ego. The ego is constantly ensnared in apparently insoluble | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| this can be said about the ego. The ego is constantly ensnared in apparently insoluble situations, problems | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| in apparently insoluble situations, problems, and conflicts. The ego is adapted exclusively to the level of duality | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of these problems include many other considerations. The ego is incapable of transcending the dualistic level, of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| and is perpetually trapped and anxious. Thus, an ego identification brings fear of life automatically in its | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of you so ardently wishes. The more the ego cramps up to get what you want consciously | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| want consciously, forgetting that it is not the ego alone that can attain it, the less can | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| be possible. Yet it is not the conscious ego that necessarily obstructs it, but some other part | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| part of your being, which is neither the ego nor the real self. However, the conscious ego | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| ego nor the real self. However, the conscious ego is often blindly driven to act the way | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| when one pays allegiance only to the active ego self with its consciousness, even then the ego | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| ego self with its consciousness, even then the ego self is no more than an obedient agent | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| or not. The question is only whether the ego follows erroneous destructive drives or whether it is | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| derive your sense of self only from the ego faculties, giving up the ego must seem terribly | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| only from the ego faculties, giving up the ego must seem terribly frightening. And right here is | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| when you do not identify exclusively with the ego, but when you are connected and identified with | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| important: this necessitates letting go of the direct ego controls. It requires trust and courage to surrender | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| them mutually exclusive, which is what the dualistic ego does. In the split way of experiencing life | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| fearlessly a state that must dispense with the ego faculties when your sense of being alive seems | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| being alive seems to come exclusively from these ego faculties? This is just where you are trapped | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| will be terrified of letting go of the ego. On the other, you will be constantly in | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| one's sense of self derives exclusively from the ego, the personality is unable to let go. Letting | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| all. It merely means harmonious interaction between the ego and the real self. It means knowing the | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| self-evident that feelings cannot be controlled by the ego. Those who attempt this merely deceive themselves. They | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the feelings and superimpose over them your puny ego logic, ego law, and pseudo-wisdom. For feelings are | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| and superimpose over them your puny ego logic, ego law, and pseudo-wisdom. For feelings are an expression | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| of life is death. The fact that the ego came into existence means that death came into | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| far afield. It suffices to say that the ego is a split-off particle of the vaster consciousness | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| as reunification and living are related and interdependent. Ego existence, pleasurelessness, and death are directly connected, as | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| connected. Therefore whoever fears letting go of the ego, who fears and denies pleasure because of this | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| friends, may lead to the misunderstanding that the ego should be dispensed with. Unfortunately, many a spiritual | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| truth than a disregard or neglect of the ego. Doing this would merely lead to the opposite | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| nay, often during several lifetimes -- overemphasized the ego, in the mistaken idea that it is not | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| various false ways of relief from a cramped ego always mean the weakening of the ego. If | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| cramped ego always mean the weakening of the ego. If, on the one hand, the ego is | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the ego. If, on the one hand, the ego is too strong, it inevitably must be too | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| extent you are frightened of letting go of ego control because you believe the false idea that | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| authority or of the consequences of disapproval. The ego strength of such healthy self-assertion makes self-surrender possible | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| makes self-surrender possible. Conversely, the weakness of an ego that fears self-responsibility makes self-surrender, and thus pleasure | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| The person who habitually overcharges and exhausts the ego faculties will then seek false relief. Such false | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the more crass forms is insanity, where the ego is completely disabled. In less crass cases it | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| takes the form of neurotic manifestations, where the ego is unable to use its faculties of strength | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| artificial ways of obtaining relief from an overtense ego that is deprived of pleasure because it is | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| therefore of primary importance to comprehend what the ego faculties are, how to use them, and where | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| to say at the moment is this: the ego must know that it is only a servant | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the pace and direct the individual path. The ego must, again and again, select, decide, intend, in | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| with all its wonderful creativity and constructiveness. The ego must lend its wholehearted support, its one-pointed effort | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| sense the subtle interplay between the increasingly alert ego and the increasingly more manifest real self, so | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| a more passive, listening and learning attitude. The ego can be likened to hands and arms that | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| a connection with the real self possible. The ego self must be compatible with the real self | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| universe and relation to the universal forces. Your ego must be active in a healthy and relaxed | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| not abdicate, or negate, the participation of the ego in the act of living. Nevertheless, you fully | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| your suffering, the more you will develop the ego and allow the universal force to establish itself | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| in God. 161. UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES Greetings. Blessings, my dearest friends | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| them unless a harmonious interaction exists between the ego and the universal intelligence within. When you are | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| primarily identified with and functioning out of the ego, you must be in imbalance. You must be | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| it always adds up to the same: the ego must learn to let go of itself. No | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| knowledge you have about the lesser role the ego pays compared to the universal intelligence, such intellectual | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| doors for some of my friends. Whenever the ego is in predominant control of the business of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the overall consciousness -- which we call the ego -- is disconnected from the total being, the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| being, the universal self. This disconnectedness causes the ego state, thus material life, and therefore the cycle | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| no longer fear of letting go of the ego, a melding with the universal forces becomes possible | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| so because they are too enmeshed in their ego. Insomnia occurs precisely because the ego is too | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in their ego. Insomnia occurs precisely because the ego is too predominant and the involuntary forces of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| cannot take over. They are hindered by the ego -- perhaps the unconscious ego, but nevertheless the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| hindered by the ego -- perhaps the unconscious ego, but nevertheless the ego, which does not want | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| -- perhaps the unconscious ego, but nevertheless the ego, which does not want to relinquish any of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self. For instance, sleep merely affords rest from ego tensions and ego chores. The type of strength | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| sleep merely affords rest from ego tensions and ego chores. The type of strength flowing into the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the divine ocean of being. When a person's ego is overactive, sleep cannot come. Even this most | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Healthy, intense self-forgetfulness makes it possible for the ego to dip into the vast sea of universal | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| humans can have. In other states where the ego can let go of itself, the experience is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the creative substance in all its splendor. The ego is truly immersed and temporarily given a much | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| that all human beings long for. Once the ego dips into the vast ocean of universal force | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| most effective and intense form of melding the ego with the universe is through another entity, via | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| each of the experiences I have described the ego transcends itself, lets go, gives itself up, and | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| intelligence and power within, until it and the ego are one. Greater intelligence takes over everything, so | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Greater intelligence takes over everything, so that the ego is always flowing, flexible, relaxed, and permeated by | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| before contacting the real self. The more the ego is dipped into the greater Being, the more | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| because of obstructions in the personality which the ego is unwilling to remove, to that extent life | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of experiences I mentioned are dangerous because then ego control is abandoned, the self immersed into a | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| context, that the human need to transcend the ego, to let go of it, is so great | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| pills rather than remove the block of the ego and transcend it. This is also why the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| it. This is also why the person whose ego is in predominant control -- and therefore does | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| seeks when all other avenues of relief from ego control fail, due to the personality's stubborn refusal | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| there because the perpetual wakefulness of an isolated ego becomes unbearable. Thus humans find themselves in ambivalence | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| one hand, they fear letting go of the ego in the healthy way, on the other, they | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| other, they strive to let go of the ego in an unhealthy way. This is one of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| The fundamental cause of the condition of predominant ego control is that there is a lawfulness that | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| lawfulness that makes it indeed hazardous for the ego to let go of itself as long as | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| let go of itself as long as the ego is attached to attitudes which are incompatible with | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| becomes absolutely impossible to let go of the ego in a healthy, safe, and life- giving way | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a healthy, safe, and life- giving way. An ego is healthy only when its attitudes are loving | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and forego its best interests. Such an unhealthy ego is striving for the precise opposite of the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| longing for escape from the tension of the ego, as well as from perpetual unpleasure, may lead | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| as from perpetual unpleasure, may lead to unhealthy ego liberation and insanity, since the liberated ego is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| unhealthy ego liberation and insanity, since the liberated ego is unsupported by anything that can give it | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| before such healthy self-observation can exist. If the ego -- also the unconscious part of the ego-self | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| on and becomes totally disorganized and disintegrated. An ego that is not sustained, guided, and inspired by | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| from any intelligence. Therefore, in a way, the ego is almost right in not letting go. As | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of sanity. The exaggerated self-governing of an aggrandized ego condition is preferable to disintegration, which is inevitable | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to disintegration, which is inevitable when the outer, ego personality is incompatible with the universal self. If | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the superior universal forces are not trusted, an ego that gives itself up has nothing else. There | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| no lawfulness other than the ego's when the ego mistrusts the universal forces. No matter how limited | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| universal forces. No matter how limited the separated ego intelligence is in comparison with the greater self | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| some grasp of a limited reality. Without the ego, the will cannot function either, if the greater | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self. Therefore fear of letting go of the ego diminishes proportionately, since one then has something much | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| thought. Ego-existence -- being totally attached to the ego levels of the personality -- causes fear and | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| really wants to end being. But the separated ego must end. Only by finding your way back | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| also the law of truth -- can your ego safely give itself to the divine being within | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| with not wanting to let go of the ego. What I would like to know is if | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you have freed yourself from the shackles of ego domination. Be blessed, body, soul and mind. Be | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| as the self unfolds and integrates with the ego. These two universal attitudes might also be called | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| be described as follows: the outer, deliberate, conscious ego and its willpower must be poised in a | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to nor anxiously pressured or impatiently coerced. The ego must be alert to recognize what the unconscious | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| By the same token, a relationship between the ego faculties and the wisdom, truth, and love of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the divine self can be established when the ego is prepared to receive the latter. This means | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| new ideas, feelings, and depths of experience, the ego will be instructed and suffused by the manifestation | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| initiating and receiving. In one instance the conscious ego is wiser and more constructive than the buried | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| into the tight tension of impatience, anxiety, and ego pride which thinks it can do it all | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| conviction that there exists nothing but the isolated ego without deeper connections. In this extremely painful illusion | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the real connections remain unused, so that the ego is truly unable to function according to its | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| business of living, the less adequately can the ego fend for itself, and therefore the more harassed | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| existence arises from ignorance and pride in the ego as the highest, best and only reality that | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| fact. When you are active with the separated ego alone instead of living the rhythmic interplay of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| which speaks through the unhappiness, sending the conscious ego a message that something should be different. The | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| with others -- if health continues while an ego remains isolated, separated and unfeeling for its own | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| important than the other, but by knowing your ego is responsible for your life. It is the | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| difficult to let go of overcontrol by the ego. If self-realization is to be attained, a new | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| new balance must be found in which the ego assumes an entirely different role. All of my | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and experience themselves almost entirely as the so-called ego -- that part which wills and reasons. This | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the rage, then toward the self because the ego does not know how to cope with these | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| do so again and the more strength the ego will have to do its part, to commit | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| put into the service of the self-willed little ego. The latter must be overcome to find the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| they, too, are included. So is the conscious ego, which is not a separated, different thing -- | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| want to activate. Nevertheless, as you know, the ego in its present development is very limited in | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| and enhancing her individuality. Giving up the determining ego will be for her a desired experience that | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the see-saw law is deeply experienced. Too much ego on the surface often indicates an inner weakness | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| the surface often indicates an inner weakness of ego. Conversely, a weak ego on the surface always | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| an inner weakness of ego. Conversely, a weak ego on the surface always means that under the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| surface always means that under the surface the ego is too rigidly upheld. The Lever Law This | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| to the past destructive patterns. Although the outer ego personality, with its will and intelligence, must initiate | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |