| Ego.........................877 | |
| from the point of view of your selfish ego, as you will see once you go beyond | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| of many varieties, such as fear that one's ego is too much in evidence. One can see | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| self-importance. This entire inner process centers around the ego, and that must block the stream of genuine | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| currents if only the sick tendencies of the ego would not stand in the way. When you | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| examination, without self-deceit. Find the extent of your ego, your oversensitivity, your vanity, your pride, and how | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| give up your pride, the importance of your ego, but you do not have to give up | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| self, exactly because through giving up the little ego you will no longer attach so much importance | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| wants to fulfill itself, wants to surrender the ego, to sacrifice, and will endeavor with all its | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| when you have liberated yourselves from your compulsive ego will, from all distortions, you will be ready | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| possible when, in a deeply felt way, the ego is no longer the center of your awareness | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| link in the chain, you still put your ego in the first place even if you are | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| is, the more will the limitations of the ego fall away. It is the ego which erects | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| of the ego fall away. It is the ego which erects the wall of blindness and separation | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the same for you and the other. The ego, putting itself in its own separate place, elevates | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| better for itself than for the other. The ego will disappear with each step that the being | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and in the other -- exactly because the ego has been overcome. By the way, not everybody | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| confusing the basic concepts, of believing that the ego is identical with the sense of individuality the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| reached, and exactly because the separation of the ego has been overcome. Since this separateness is nothing | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| of individuality in the personality. One day the ego must be overcome and the merging accomplished. Then | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Indian concept refers to the dissolution of the ego, while the Jewish and Christian concept deals only | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| they had certain spiritual experiences. Since transcending the ego, at least to a degree, is a basic | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| individuality, in its pure form, that is without ego, is purely of the spirit. When seeing a | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| in no way decrease, and that only the ego dissolves. And this is an essential difference! It | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| think that your whole personality hinges on the ego. I would explain it in this way: The | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| I would explain it in this way: The ego is a part of the lower self and | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| which makes you heavy and earthbound with its ego and which limits your individual capacity to experience | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| itself. When one clings so tightly to the ego, it is not only because it is so | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| because one has the misconception that with the ego one would also have to give up the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| may also come from clinging tightly to the ego with its self-pity, vanity, cowardice and pride -- | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| pride -- in short, everything that nurtures the ego, which wants to feel special. This also is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| it in the light of truth. The elevated ego makes you lonely, it puts you indeed into | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| in no way connected to God's spirit world. Ego, power, vanity, pride, craving for admiration can be | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| The recognition that you dislike putting aside your ego or your vanity, or whatever else it may | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| pain can you become detached enough from your ego until pain will no longer be necessary for | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| if you hold on so tightly to your ego and to your little sensitivity or vanity, you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| seriously, whose comfort and everything pertaining to the ego is not so terribly important, whose own little | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| desirelessness should set in as far as the ego is concerned. Again, this kind of detachment cannot | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| love, but differently, without the pangs of the ego, without the shadowy side that all good has | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| as you are in the grip of your ego with its fears and anxieties, you cannot live | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| great deal of personal vanity. It is the ego with all its manifestations. All these characteristics are | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| of your soul. To the degree that the ego and the comfort of all that goes with | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| is that material comfort, the desires of the ego, become secondary to considerations pertaining to God and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| reactions that also put the gratification of the ego in the foreground. This is breaking spiritual law | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| vanity. You have given up some of your ego. And this is why you must receive in | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in its blindness. If you give up your ego in this way, you bestow the greatest possible | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| be inclined to contradict your self-accusations; thus the ego is bolstered. Furthermore, you think that accusing yourself | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| When you encounter the strong pressing of your ego, you should learn detachment from it. By viewing | 18 FREE WILL |
| viewing again and again the drive of your ego you can gradually learn to let go of | 18 FREE WILL |
| the clean will that does not put your ego in the center of the world can take | 18 FREE WILL |
| or business. They are filled with their own ego and don't develop spiritually. Can you comment on | 18 FREE WILL |
| in times of adversity, crucifixion of the personal ego with its vanity and self-will: all this was | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| the spiritual essence of each individual after the ego has been crucified. This cannot happen otherwise than | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| your lower self and the crucifixion of the ego are the all-important things. Where you are able | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| to hear that, my friends. For self-will and ego and vanity exist in every human being and | 21 THE FALL |
| something like this comes up. Oh, here my ego intrudes again. I have to give up craving | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-pity, no self-delusion, utter severance with the little ego, time, effort, patience, perseverance, and courage. What you | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and the reaction of your lower self, your ego, your hurt, your vanity that become involved when | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| between the real you and your hurt little ego, and you can humor it a little bit | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| at first. Test yourself first where your own ego is involved, your pride perhaps or your self-will | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you should learn to accept humbly that your ego prevents your seeing the truth. The fighting spirit | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| curbed and only allowed to function if the ego can be neutralized. After a while, with proper | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| attained. If you can clearly feel how your ego is gradually disappearing, and you are not in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| influence your course of action. When your small ego stands in the center, your judgment is always | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| colored. Until you can clearly distinguish if your ego is still involved and to what extent, you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your own personal ego-stake. Not to have this ego in the foreground any more is to have | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| pay the necessary price and therefore merely wants ego gratification. This part wants to fulfill a task | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| sentence: real love must be entirely free of ego, pride, vanity, and self-will. That is the answer | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| help with it. It should not serve your ego in any way, so it should not be | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| will. Self-will is the will of the little ego. Free will comprises everything: you can use free | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| any misunderstandings: self-will belongs to the little blind ego and is thus the will of the lower | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| motives without any self-pampering or sensitivity for your ego, with utter and shattering self-honesty. That is the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you are vain, you want to place your ego in the first row. You want admiration -- | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| will of the little self or the little ego. Self-will strives to get what it wants, regardless | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| ultimately also to the self. Only the little ego is too blind to understand this. Self-will is | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| I have a desire, coming from my little ego and from my self-will, that does not correspond | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| What does pride mean? It means that your ego is more important than the other person's, that | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| yourself so important, for your little pride and ego do not matter half as much as your | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| as you cannot give up what your little ego may desire - - even if it is | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to receive love. In this layer exists the ego with all its vanity, pride, fear, and ambition | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| all its vanity, pride, fear, and ambition. This ego layer believes that the best thing is to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| if you are not able to overcome your ego, pride, fear, and the cowardice that allows you | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| -- that the whole world revolves around their ego, that they are the most important beings, will | 36 PRAYER |
| entire outlook on life. People who feel their ego to be the center of the world tend | 36 PRAYER |
| happiness. Pray that you do not love your ego so much that you shirk the healing agent | 36 PRAYER |
| to do with love. The yearning of the ego to break through the barrier of loneliness poses | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| life apart from complete humility. The individual whose ego currents are so strong that self-will has the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| able to see where your self-will, pride, and ego claim gratification that your higher self deems wrong | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| your illusions which you build up for your ego, for your vanity, for your pride because of | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| humility and love leaving out your pride and ego and proving that what you mean is serious | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| dare to love and forget my own little ego. I admit that I have hurt other people | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| for you to leave out your own little ego and see the other person's point of view | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| God's will is relaxed, patient, unconcerned with one's ego. God's will is flexible, while self-will may want | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| with your vanity, in self-righteousness? Must your little ego triumph? Or will you take whatever comes and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is no risk involved, except, perhaps, your little ego and your little vanity. But only by losing | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| much you are involved in your pride and ego and therefore not half as objective as you | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| grow out of the confining walls of your ego, so that expansion can be harmonious and healthy | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| movement -- search for the other, putting the ego behind; inward movement -- searching for the self | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| directly opposed to love. But before the little ego can be removed, it has to be recognized | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| evolve which no longer needs what the little ego seemed to need. Then love can truly unfold | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| gives out, communicates, and rises above the little ego, which considers itself the center of all things | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| end in yourself. The blind and ignorant human ego is struggling against the unknown new state of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| truly getting along with others, than putting one's ego out of the picture. Nature symbolizes certain aspects | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the more you will tend to overinflate your ego. The less impaired your real ego is, the | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| overinflate your ego. The less impaired your real ego is, the less you will need to inflate | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| coming from their distortions, connected with the little ego? The healthy part responds to real life, while | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| words, masochism is a giving up. If the ego is too weak to prove the world wrong | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| is born and grows into a child, its ego is still so weak that it cannot sustain | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| an essential ingredient in life. But the weak ego of the child is in reality dependent. The | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| a good example from which to mold their ego, which later affords the possibility to stand free | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| of identification with others because of a weak ego is conformity to public opinion, parroting the views | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| psychic forces have tended toward deliberate helplessness, the ego has remained weak and therefore now it cannot | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| healthy control, not the erroneous kinds that the ego personality seeks when true awareness is lacking and | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| other needs -- for example, to enhance the ego, to diminish feelings of inadequacy, to feel wanted | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| otherwise have been unbearable for the child's undeveloped ego. If painful experience is eroticized or sexualized, it | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| denial. A generally ignored need is that of ego gratification. The most enlightened people are under the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the self. Lack of ability to give the ego its necessary gratification is a result of ignoring | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| of approval, some degree of gratification of my ego, chances are, provided you do not feel guilty | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| may force you to do something your little ego is not inclined to do, or to give | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| is unwilling to surrender. Self-will wants the little ego to be in control, so you can cling | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| over to a force greater than your little ego. Love between the sexes is a humbling experience | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| can lead to a turning point, provided the ego does not lapse in its vigilance, allowing the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| is put into unproductive channels because the little ego fears and wants to avoid -- often unconsciously | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| wrong kind of control, that of the little ego, must be entirely relinquished. It must be let | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| fully. Usually a reverse situation exists. The little ego is lazy, unwilling to assume the necessary responsibility | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| Where activity should reign, passivity prevails. Where the ego must let go and allow cosmic intelligence to | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| Be in God! 132. THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF Greetings, my | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| outer self, or the real self from the ego. What is their relationship to each other? There | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |