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viewpoint, you will find certain clues about the hidden reasons why you hold opinions not your own 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
for psychological and emotional reasons that are still hidden. QUESTION: After death, the physical body disintegrates. And 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
all examine this attitude that may be deeply hidden within yourself. Do not be deceived by your 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
your way without your attracting it. Find that hidden link and you will come to see truth 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
that. But many of you feel it deeply hidden in your subconscious. Try to find that part 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
The mere discovery and knowledge of the possible hidden selfish motive will show you what course to 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
I discussed is the importance of realizing possible hidden motives which may be selfish, while the outer 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
my fellow-creature's free will or self-will? The deeply hidden fear of dependence on other people's actions and 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
self-examination has begun, although its existence is often hidden in the emotions and not displayed in outer 53 SELF-LOVE
to search for your own inner, and possibly hidden currents of distorted self- love. First find the 53 SELF-LOVE
kind of self-love. Until you discover all the hidden, subtle emotions you cannot go further. But after 53 SELF-LOVE
must be a side in you, maybe deeply hidden, which wishes to escape living. It hopes to 53 SELF-LOVE
desire to punish. This can happen in very hidden and subtle ways. It does not necessarily show 53 SELF-LOVE
but the realization, the ability to recognize such hidden reactions in the proper spirit, will contribute to 53 SELF-LOVE
complete rejection of self-responsibility. It expresses further the hidden desire to force others, be it people, be 53 SELF-LOVE
that forms this concept or is something else hidden behind this point of view? If you wait 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
may be much more self- willed, in a hidden way, to refuse to make decisions; it may 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
sex is sinful, the sexual drive was kept hidden. Nothing hidden can mature. As you know, it 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
sinful, the sexual drive was kept hidden. Nothing hidden can mature. As you know, it works the 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
they remain that way because they are kept hidden in the subconscious and are thus paralyzed in 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
a child you kept the infantile sex drive hidden. You were often made to feel how bad 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
unconsciously encourages a tendency to stagnate, which is hidden underneath the good motives. Again, this misinterpretation shows 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
so pressing, while underneath the true motive remains hidden. And the hidden motive always causes the fear 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
underneath the true motive remains hidden. And the hidden motive always causes the fear that you might 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
for the hesitation and the uncertainty. Self-punishment for hidden wrong motives is only one reason that prohibits 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
becomes of doubtful value. Wherever you have such hidden reasoning in your unconscious, you are immature. You 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
wish-fulfillment by setting up blocks. Find these inner, hidden reasonings, investigate them closer and come to terms 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
your attitude about it is healthy and without hidden elements. Remember this. The real reasons for your 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
to look for something far away and deeply hidden. This will come too, but begin with that 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
on, you will gradually proceed to what is hidden on deeper levels. The exploration of the unconscious 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
that the real reasons for inferiority feelings are hidden. Subconsciously you do register your imperfections and inadequacies 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
another in whom the same trend is more hidden and more subtle. Rather, it is a question 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
exists -- no matter how subtly, how much hidden or covered up with worthy motives and plausible 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
of the personality, freely expressed in infancy, remains hidden in the psyche of the adult and continues 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
how you go on and on in subtle, hidden ways, provoking people and setting up negative situations 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
core of your feelings, you will find a hidden corner where you do not want to have 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
be willing to let go of something useless. Hidden, the infant would go on destroying your life 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
desire can be extreme, although it is often hidden and can only be approached in an indirect 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
this belief may manifest only in a very hidden and subtle way. Obviously, the illusion that you 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
effect in such a case. In more subtle, hidden and unconscious ways, the same thing holds true 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
truly on the path, you will find certain hidden aspects of yourself that have at one time 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of the nature of each one's personality. This hidden part is somewhat like the other side of 62 MAN AND WOMAN
the female part in the male is exactly hidden, while the other half is open. Picture a 62 MAN AND WOMAN
direction, the direction of harmonization, of unfolding the hidden and heretofore forbidden side in each. But this 62 MAN AND WOMAN
the same thing happens if these reactions are hidden under a superimposed parody of manhood. In another 62 MAN AND WOMAN
of his wrong conclusion that emotions must be hidden. They are also due to mass images which 62 MAN AND WOMAN
inner and outer problems. If you find your hidden emotions, you will understand why other people respond 62 MAN AND WOMAN
fore all distorted motives, no matter how deeply hidden and unconscious. Thereby, your soul will become healthy 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
faith or complete love. The lack is often hidden in the unconscious. On the conscious level, the 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
remains in the unconscious. On this path, the hidden lacks as well as the wrong conclusions are 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
This work will bring out the real person, hidden behind the layers of pseudo-protection which are always 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the healthier a soul is, the more a hidden creativity can come to the surface, and also 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Prayer is always constructive, provided one has no hidden selfish motives, no self-deceptions, and provided it is 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
deed is very often a recognition of deeply hidden trends in one's own soul. By virtue of 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What motive can I have? Sometimes there are hidden motives and emotions, other than the obvious, loving 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
them properly. As long as the doubts are hidden out of a false sense of shame and 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
doubts only by finding yourself, by purifying the hidden parts of the self, by clarifying unconscious confusions 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
on your path to find, deep in the hidden recesses of your soul, the real roots of 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
up this fault or weakness, for reasons still hidden. Therefore you feel guilty. That means you have 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
makes you feel guilty? Or isn't there some hidden recess of your soul that says, I must 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
imagined guilt is actually graver than the real hidden guilt. But just because the real guilt is 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
this element in you, no matter in how hidden and conflicting a way it may manifest by 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
of weakness. Your true self is very often hidden behind a wall of stone. This wall of 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
the real self manifests, but another part remains hidden. Yes, you may have the generous heart that 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
can be changed as long as it is hidden from consciousness. In the second place, the first 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
also find that you keep your real self hidden most of the time. With this realization you 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
burden it was to keep your real self hidden. One person will hide it behind a mask 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
response to your destructive impulses, no matter how hidden and unconscious they are. To have caused a 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
A is more right than B, A's most hidden faults and weaknesses will have a particular effect 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
conflicts, existing from former incarnations, far back, remain hidden deeper. Only if you solve everything you had 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
the child's world within yourself would still be hidden. Your life could not possibly change, because your 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
that which you yearn for. By recognizing your hidden subjectivity, you automatically approach objectivity -- and thereby 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is necessary to start searching in areas deeply hidden within that you may not yet have reached 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
others to love you; 2) your subjective outlook, hidden in your emotional reactions, that makes you unable 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
You must become acutely aware of all your hidden emotions and unrealities if you are to have 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
say to all of you, find the specific hidden emotions. Learn to understand their language. Analyze their 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
difficult to detect because the trend is so hidden, so well camouflaged and rationalized. The only way 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
in order to enhance self-importance, whether open or hidden. It will be of great value for all 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
In most instances, if the depression cannot be hidden away, you seek and find more acceptable reasons 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
what is in reality. You will not have hidden hostility and resentments. The other person will feel 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
though being loved were a confirmation that the hidden voice of your guilt is wrong. Find the 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
current works strongly, although in very devious and hidden ways. When, in the course of your work 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
that part of yourself that is most deeply hidden from your conscious -- you might also call 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
case, the rebellion is just as strong, but hidden, and therefore infinitely harder to trace. If you 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
and let go if you recognize your deeply hidden hurt and resentment. As an adult human being 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
a very strong factor, but is so deeply hidden from your conscious understanding! The most frequent way 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
capable of it through development and progress. This hidden conflict eclipses your otherwise growing soul. If you 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
have come to see the power of your hidden trends, compulsions, and images will not only readily 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
path with the wisdom and conviction that a hidden conflict, in the long run, does as much 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
be utterly honest with yourself and acknowledge your hidden motivations and feelings, you will then understand why 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
provocation, perhaps in response to an open or hidden provocation of the other person. Thus you will 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
goes on among human beings, while it is hidden from your awareness now, is a reality you 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
real hurt. But the hostility has to be hidden, too, because it makes you feel guilty for 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
reasons, so it comes out in a devious, hidden way, which in turn brings on further provocation 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
confusions, however, are the symptoms of the larger, hidden ones. Therefore, one needs the outer happenings to 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
free within yourself that which had remained completely hidden. It is your true self that you are 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
it will become necessary to now evaluate your hidden images and complexes with a focus on your 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
had overcome, or perhaps variations of them, deeply hidden within your innermost conflicts. When you recognize your 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
prerequisite for permanence is finding and solving your hidden conflicts. Moreover, it is of vital importance that 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
qualities should come out, and which ones remain hidden for a future life. Some may be in 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
be revealed. What would be a burden remains hidden. And the more one advances, the less knowledge 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
As long as you have not recognized this hidden conviction, you cannot arrive at the liberation you 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
desire. The more your intellect conflicts with your hidden emotions, the more difficult it will be to 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
find this aspect in you, no matter how hidden. It is also necessary that you understand it 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
are constantly aggravating it. This can be so hidden that at first it would seem impossible to 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
aspect. In fact, it may only be more hidden, and perhaps even more damaging. But I venture 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
and unfree as before, there must be something hidden that you have not yet found. You will 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
the dislike on others. The more it is hidden, the more you may overcompensate for it by 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
in finding that in you which is still hidden and then, through understanding its imagined necessity, dissolving 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
that whatever you give forth, no matter how hidden or subtle, is returned to you. And you 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it profoundly as to their real reactions and hidden trends. If done sincerely, astonishing insights must follow 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
for those who can understand, the concealed one, hidden in symbols, has an additional meaning and revelation 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and effort of cultivating it. Insight into one's hidden desires and their reasons will bring the talent 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
knows this is futile and damaging. This deeply hidden knowledge is not correctly interpreted by your consciousness 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and observed as they function in the most hidden, subtle and unobtrusive ways, one slips back inadvertently 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
reactions with will and vigor to find the hidden wrong conclusion. For, if there is a disturbance 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you, that is destructive. Once you find this hidden reasoning process, you will realize the pretense and 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
so subtle and most of the time so hidden that it is impossible to recognize from a 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in deeds or words, but exists as a hidden, well-camouflaged attitude. You may even bend over backwards 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the manner you describe. As long as the hidden problem is securely out of the way, one 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SPRING Deep within every human being is a hidden font of life. Like a spring beneath the 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
self-search. You may be quite unaware of your hidden craving and exaggerated need; you may have covered 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
In the past, before you really penetrated the hidden regions and motivations of your soul forces, all 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
longing for pleasure supreme. Both may be very hidden. Find which of the two ways you have 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
fearful that more suffering may come from this hidden cause. Since you are impatient, either consciously or 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
active spirit of searching for one's own inner hidden causes with the relaxed attitude of accepting, for 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
meet yourself face to face in your innermost, hidden conflicts, attitudes, and beliefs, and comprehend the real 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
you to be. This truth had to be hidden; it became a guilty secret, and you started 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE

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