| light of truth on other areas of your ego consciousness can you adopt healthy, truthful attitudes. Only | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you adopt healthy, truthful attitudes. Only a healthy ego can transcend itself and unify with the naturally | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| naturally healthy divine consciousness. The weak, sick, distorted ego very often wants to give itself up simply | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| or other means of false transcendence. But such ego transcendence is highly dangerous and is just a | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| For insanity itself is the attempt of the ego to lose or transcend itself because it can | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| state, perhaps for many incarnations, thus making healthy ego transcendence as impossible as the false kind. You | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| only by using the healthy part of the ego to shed light on the sick part; to | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| part; to use the honest part of the ego to shed light on the dishonest part. Then | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| to shed light on the dishonest part. Then ego transcendence takes place in the safest possible way | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| an electric shock went through you. Therefore, the ego must grow sufficiently strong and healthy to bear | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| will not fall into the trap of an ego trick and sit in doubting judgment, flattering yourself | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| Just as you create willfully from the little ego, following the dictates of vanity, greed, laziness, and | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| from this course. Recognize it as yet another ego trick. By such devastating guilt you prevent yourself | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| and put into the service of the life-negating ego tricks. If you have the courage and trust | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| your doubts, which are a trick of the ego, and as you increase your capacity to see | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| follow to integrate the experience with the conscious ego personality. Still another may discover an ability to | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| power at these gatherings. Do not allow the ego tricks to cut you off from your heart | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| feelings. If you recognize your own doubting, negating ego in the tricks it produces, and if you | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| identify only with the negative aspect of your ego self, giving up something that is the primary | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| that is the primary motivating force of this ego seems like self-annihilation, and you cannot give up | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| your whole, real, joyous self: not this little ego, but the ultimate Creator of whom you are | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| of bridging the gap between the little, separate ego consciousness and the all-consciousness stems from the idea | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| deepest level why you identify with this separated ego consciousness, why you are so afraid of letting | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| pay sufficient attention to those areas of the ego self which are steeped in negativity and destructiveness | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| cannot evolve and manifest and unify with your ego self unless you learn to fully embrace all | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| have accomplished much with the powers of the ego. They needed to develop these powers so as | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| spiritual center and not be ascribed to the ego. The pride of the ego makes this difficult | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| ascribed to the ego. The pride of the ego makes this difficult. Questions arise such as: What | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| necessary control. It is a function that the ego should perform. Disharmony and distortion create imbalance and | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| feelings and involuntary processes. A person with right ego control is capable of surrender in ways that | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to let go of controls because, unless one's ego has been strengthened through self-discipline, one would drown | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| ground of reality, fulfilling the functions of the ego, rather than -- falsely -- dispensing with it | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| only allow to come through you when your ego stands on the firm ground built by self-discipline | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| cannot fail to see objectively the temporary little ego in its ugliness without losing heart about your | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| distinctly different within the narrow realm of the ego. I will use the term sexuality to represent | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| endeavor requires that you temporarily put aside your ego, your own needs, expectations, and personal preoccupations to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| whole character with all one's attitudes, personality and ego trends, problems and impurities, as well as one's | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| When sexuality is used in the service of ego aggrandizement and lust for power, it cannot help | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| When you adopt a human body and the ego state in this three-dimensional world, you automatically close | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| of life experiences. When humans adopt the limited ego state, they do so for very specific purposes | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| consciousness and your faculties, my friends. For your ego personality, as it expresses itself now, is but | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| which consists of the three-dimensional reality and the ego -- affords possibilities of a focused awareness that | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the moment they express themselves in the isolated ego state, disconnected from deeper inner reality, they become | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| memory is translated into the confined and limited ego state, it comes out jumbled. Since the ego | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| ego state, it comes out jumbled. Since the ego state is a concentration of the less purified | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| create takes on a distorted, undesirable form. The ego always lives in the illusion that it is | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| are essentially antagonistic to its well-being. Everything the ego does is always either against or in competition | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| is what creates its destructiveness and egocentricity. The ego makes power a dangerous weapon, as you all | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the state of consciousness that goes beyond the ego. One of the tasks of most humans as | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| of the tasks of most humans as isolated ego aspects is to learn trustful patience, flowing with | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| can then be seen that only in its ego manifestation, in its separateness, is such a distortion | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| total personality, manifesting in a body and an ego, must temporarily forget its full capacity and its | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the total reason for being in the human ego state is not yet conscious. You need to | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| eliminate it. Otherwise you create willfully on an ego level, which cannot satisfy your heart and soul | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| which cannot satisfy your heart and soul. The ego mind has the power to create. It does | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| primarily a focusing. If you create from the ego level, it will be a tense, anxiety-producing focusing | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| clearly aware of the personal stake of the ego and of wanting a certain thing in one | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| is the time element that you, on the ego level, have to deal with. Impatience is another | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the inner being, so that the lesson the ego has to learn is not comprehended. Only on | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| to learn is not comprehended. Only on the ego level is everything separate: effect from cause, soul | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| They are all byproducts of the limited, separated ego state. Everything you experience seems to exist only | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| only in those seemingly objective terms of the ego. The more you focus in that direction, the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| flower. The recreating process unfolds forevermore when the ego personality unites with the other aspects of self | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| these are contradictions only on the most superficial ego level where the duality of either/or reigns supreme | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| specifically deal with. In the delusion of the ego, you perceive life as your enemy, foreign and | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| you give to that which transcends the little ego. When this whole- hearted commitment is made totally | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| where you only wish it on your own ego terms which defeats the very act of self-surrender | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| blocked. Unless you own up to the contrary ego level hidden behind your goodwill, you may not | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| actualizing the divine life into his or her ego consciousness. What are the inner and outer attitudes | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| and despair. Surrendering the knowledge of the limited ego to the knowledge of the deeper self, so | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| fear and defend against others with your destructive ego defenses. Outer manifestations must follow suit. Your health | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| process I described: let go of the little ego, the little opinions, the negative reactions you have | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| You have to die to those. The little ego with its little investments must die. In that | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| see, not even the little self of the ego really dies. It is enlarged and united with | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| refine, reeducate, and purify these divergent aspects. Your ego, which is your active, determining outer consciousness, can | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| of these connections, or to evade it. Your ego consciousness is the borderline between the inner light | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| forgets the greater truth of being, the conscious ego self temporarily identifies with the aspects needing re-education | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| against others so as to set your little ego above them, the truth can be used on | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| what they could be. Of course, an overgrown ego makes its claims constantly, overtly or covertly. But | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| through the same fundamental struggle to transcend the ego. You are unique in the way God can | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| genius, for everyone is God. For the little ego that claims ego specialness this is not welcome | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| is God. For the little ego that claims ego specialness this is not welcome news. The little | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| specialness this is not welcome news. The little ego wants to be superior, above all others. The | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| flowing forth are the claims of the little ego which wants to tower above others, needing admiration | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| God- consciousness are never in conflict. Only the ego, in its separated state, is in conflict because | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| in conflict because of blindness and limitation. The ego is not one, it is divided, and often | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| eyes of others. The claim of the little ego, translated into words, cries out: Admire me, I | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| capacity to be self-forgetful, but that your little ego thwarts this natural state. Maybe you hold onto | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| that dedication to a cause beyond your little ego implies masochistic suffering and deprivation, poverty, and frustration | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the self-serving opportunism and vanity of your little ego. You grew into a more developed state and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| concerned only in a negative way with little ego interests, puny advantages, and unwillingness to give to | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| matters. Giving to a cause beyond the little ego is the supreme satisfaction. Deprive yourself of that | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| that in you which is greater than your ego, in order to increase the strength of your | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| of the hypocrisy and hiding of the little ego. You will lose your fear of the evil | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| and insist upon it. It is the little ego that needs recognition and has no sense of | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| no sense of proportion. It is the little ego that gropes in the dark and fights in | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| a new state of greatness in humility, without ego, without needing to prove anything, without comparing yourself | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| go obviously means letting go of the limited ego with its selfwill, its narrow understanding and its | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| trust is at work here. The little, limited ego is trusted, while the greater divine self is | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| is negated. This does not mean that the ego should be denied. But it needs to expand | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| spiritual struggle about what to trust: the little ego or God within. In order to do the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| unpurified part in the task fulfillment. The conscious ego must make this decision. The higher self will | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the inner self, the higher self and the ego personality, the will of the divine self and | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| desire, subjective desire -- desire stemming from the ego and its distortions -- alienates you from the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you know that God-consciousness is within everything. The ego only decides which way to turn. Right now | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| able to follow the process by involving the ego personality rather than letting it stay behind. This | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| as the train continues its ride, but the ego consciousness has a choice. It can choose to | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| movement follows its innate plan and when the ego gets off, the inner movement still goes on | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| the harmony that is being established between the ego and the inner process of movement through the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| allow the discrepancy between your process and your ego state to accumulate into more disturbing elements, so | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| effort to overcome resistance and also surrender the ego control to the guidance of the divine inner | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| in opposition to the deeper, wiser Godself the ego must surrender to. It is this divine self | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| being cramped and tight and overactive with the ego forces. It connotes giving in and surrendering to | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| the divine nucleus is applied to the separated ego. Ambitiousness and competitiveness are a distortion of the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| when put into the service of the separated ego, it becomes an endeavor that sets oneself into | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| self that also always speaks to you. Your ego has to learn to distinguish between them. The | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| for the divine to come through. If the ego specifically requests wisdom from the divine part of | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| go of the known safety valves, the familiar ego habits of finding security and self-fulfillment in at | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| way in the imaginary separation of the little ego. At this point you are no longer in | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| strength with which the former can penetrate the ego structure and manifest depends on the degree the | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| part you ally yourself with depends on your ego consciousness. In such a conflict crisis is inevitable | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a power that operates differently from the outer ego power you so strive for. Real truth and | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| higher self's knowledge through the maze of the ego consciousness makes the truth somehow untrue. In tonight's | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| is very different, however, from the way the ego conceives of it. Perfection in reality is an | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| perfection is a constantly moving state. But the ego consciousness conceives of perfection as static, very limited | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| must give up striving for perfection from the ego point of view to truly reach the perfection | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| on both levels -- that of the conscious ego personality and that of the higher self. Along | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| when it comes from the level of the ego personality? What are the motives? What are the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| to appear what you are not. On the ego level, perfection becomes, or is, outer-directed. It exists | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| creation filter through the limited opening into the ego personality and the conscious personality misunderstands and distorts | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| misrepresented and misused by the prideful, domineering, fearful ego, so that perfection was forced, pretended, punitively dictated | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Wishful daydreams are often spun by a diminished ego rather than by the desire that comes from | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| your inner spirit. In these dreams a diminished ego seeks a false medicine against its own underdevelopment | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| those who have slighted you. Even in these ego gratifications, however, the original facets of true value | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| it with the petty pride of the limited ego. The true value of your inner spirit aims | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| feel that I'm going a lot into my ego. I find myself thinking that I'm better than | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| I want to do this not for my ego aggrandizement nor for any other ulterior motive or | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| never experience frustration, of unlovingness and ungivingness, of ego aggrandizement, of jealousy and resentments, when you give | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| confusion. Surrender means a letting go of the ego, of cherished ideas, goals, desires, and opinions -- | 254 SURRENDER |
| to find this fine balance. For a dependent ego that denies self-responsibility it is quite impossible to | 254 SURRENDER |
| never weakens the personality. It makes the positive ego healthier and stronger. It enables you to be | 254 SURRENDER |