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your idealized self. You will discover the deeply hidden fear that says your world will come to 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
exist behind all idealized self-images. But they are hidden, and since they crassly contradict the morally high 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
felt emotions out of all those that lie hidden underneath. The idealized self has been called into 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
the idealized self. Consequently, they have to be hidden. This double hiding causes inversion and has serious 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
In most cases, however, the attitudes are more hidden and are in conflict with each other. A 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
pain that was always in you but was hidden, against which you protected yourself by unloading it 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
that made it possible for all these hitherto hidden emotions to become conscious, so that you can 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
of you, while you watch for new and hidden recognitions. But it is these actual emotional reactions 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
are bound to find some of these reactions hidden deep within yourself. Both soul currents, being utterly 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
cause shame or humiliation that has to be hidden from others so that your defeat will not 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
second nature is more difficult than finding deeply hidden, important new insights. Here you have to deal 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
will be extreme humiliation that has to be hidden at any cost. This very process of concealment 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
of dealing with a defeat that cannot be hidden is to belittle others by making them seem 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
change certain attitudes and approaches to life, this hidden part within yourself has remained static and has 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
to determine the cause when one tendency is hidden. Because of this raging inner battle between such 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
only find the resentments and guilt, but deeply hidden, you will also find excessive demands, no less 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
core always produces shame, which has to be hidden, and is then covered with its opposite. These 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
should carry. The tremendously damaging effects that this hidden attitude has on the personality can be discovered 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
need for such goodness mostly stems from the hidden striving to remain a helpless child in order 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
fear, cringing appeasement, and helplessness also exist, though hidden from awareness. The shame surrounding these tendencies is 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
by human authority, and this shame must be hidden at all costs. Both crude types -- often 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
not only the clinging helplessness, but also the hidden resentment that God has not come forth to 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
to prove to yourself and others that the hidden does not exist. In one case you hide 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
false countermeasure. So, find in what subtle, deeply hidden recesses of your soul you expect God to 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
now can realize. You cripple yourself with this hidden attitude. And you make a false crutch out 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
problems of both parties. But finding what inner hidden role you play will be beneficial, possibly even 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
the crisis itself is the effect of the hidden emotional immaturity, as well as of the existing 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
see where this leads to. If such subtle hidden emotions can be detected, it will alleviate any 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
relax, to further observe, so that answers still hidden will come to the fore. The answers will 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
subtle thing. If you pray and find the hidden attitude that you expect God to do it 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
of finding and changing what wants to remain hidden. It may be the expression of a childish 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
you manifest it outwardly, or whether it smolders hidden, your aggressiveness has its effect on others. However 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
its in itself correct premise. Then consider the hidden claim, which did not work. Look at the 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
your particular point of relinquishing that must be hidden somewhere right in the problem with which you 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
seeing in that person your own cowardice and hidden rebellion. Therefore it is an utterly selfish emotion 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
you feel worthless and as nothing in some hidden crevice of your personality, the more you will 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
In this case, you must continue bringing further hidden errors to light. Asking Why do I feel 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
another reason may be the feeling, vague and hidden, that one's own happiness depends on everyone else 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
feelings. You have so many subterfuges, so many hidden crevices in your soul, that becoming aware of 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
with subtle pretenses and superimpositions and with the hidden but nevertheless present attitude that you do what 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
areas of your emotions that used to be hidden from sight and awareness. If you do not 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
are no symptoms? If a physical disease is hidden in an inner organ, without producing any symptoms 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
the person. The understanding will dissolve the still hidden hurt and anger, setting you free, and unclogging 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
only become aware of so much that was hidden away, but, you have also begun to dissolve 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
a person has become greatly aware of his hidden currents -- let's say, he has become aware 101 THE DEFENSE
own way. Since this tendency is subtle and hidden, and often has nothing to do with sexual 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
that is too subtle, too insidious, and too hidden even to be recognized. You will now understand 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
an unwillingness that is often unconscious. Overcoming the hidden resistance will make you understand yourself better and 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
be quickly and easily done, because deep and hidden factors may play a role. Even distorted and 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
applies to outer and obvious manifestations or concerns hidden emotional attitudes makes not the slightest difference. I 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
Constant self-moralizing, which often happens in subtle, devious, hidden ways, keeps you from understanding that which causes 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
to resolve its problems and conflicts which remain hidden away from awareness, the more does his relationship 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
on such a Path of self-knowledge, does this hidden unconscious stage come to the fore. In this 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
prayer; owning up to something that one has hidden from in shame is prayer. When this proceeds 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
one- sidedness, pride, fears, all on a deeply hidden psychological level, these same attitudes are bound to 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
this is always due to an inner, perhaps hidden, unwillingness to face some area of one's being 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
your withdrawal, which exists on a much more hidden level and in a more subtle manifestation. Thus 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
-- and this fight usually happens in a hidden way -- does their relationship fluctuate between domination 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
whether or not they are aware of this hidden conviction against which they may erroneously battle with 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
for affection and loving. This may be so hidden that, offhand, they may deny it utterly. All 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
this fact is of primary importance. In this hidden countercurrent, they are just as afraid to let 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
prevails, but even more to the deep and hidden guilt about it. It is not easy to 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
inspire you to set out to uncover your hidden guilt for not loving. I repeat this, because 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
ignored the selfish motives behind your unselfish acts. Hidden selfish motives induce you to act them out 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
sermon. These words are directed to a deeply hidden layer or core of your being. Often, the 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
give you the incentive to look at the hidden guilt in yourself. When I say incentive, what 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
fully face your real guilt and certain hitherto hidden aspects of your lower self, what then? It 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
be well rooted in the personality only if hidden opposites are faced, understood, come to terms with 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
begin with yourself. If your own truth remains hidden from your awareness, you have nothing to build 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
as the superimposed faith and hope cover their hidden opposites. In order to fully understand your guilts 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
demands. I am now referring mainly to the hidden, unconscious demands that exist in you without your 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
is what makes you insecure. Keeping your reaction hidden will make discrimination even less possible. Your lack 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
demands? They may reside perhaps in another area, hidden from sight or explained away. Important as it 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
equal importance is to find where your own hidden demands exist. When you find these, and transform 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
of his will. His own inner development, still hidden, and very contradictory to some facets of his 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
good, but is unable to cope with his hidden selfishness and cruelty due to repression, is unable 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
Thus, gradually, through the discoveries about your innermost, hidden attitudes and emotions, you will find yourself flowing 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
Only after closer inspection did you find, deeply hidden, the very opposite to be true. You then 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
to be true. You then understood how this hidden distortion destroyed so many possibilities for fully living 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
its best to maintain it, often in precarious, hidden, and distorted ways. Unfortunately, emotional independence is often 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
As long as you have not understood your hidden motivation for embracing the cause you are still 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
using those on whom you depend. In this hidden using, the distortion of your imagined love can 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
than with using an issue to cover up hidden psychological deviations. In healthy struggle you never fight 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
of ceasing the futile struggle to keep your hidden negative attitudes from surfacing, in the false belief 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
struggle must also be going on. In some hidden way you must be struggling against yourself -- 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
is time to stop struggling and allow your hidden emotions to reach the surface. All human attitudes 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
hurts of life. This is too general. One hidden reason for maintaining the barricade is that deep 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
This, too, can be verified only in subtle, hidden areas that are not easy to find unless 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
and making conscious what heretofore slumbered in the hidden recesses of your soul. And now, my friends 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
The aim of finding, understanding, and resolving your hidden conflicts and distortions is to bring you ultimately 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
not taken the final step of facing their hidden conflicts, their inner confusions. If they recognize these 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
core of your spiritual self is no longer hidden and out of reach. The more you are 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
negativity. The more the childish, one-sided egocentricity is hidden in guilt and shame, the less can it 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
to life is held in check, denied, and hidden. Hence a vast confusion exists in you. You 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
Such a disturbance may be as subtle and hidden as the very misconception itself. It may create 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
become aware of what you have so far hidden from yourself. When this is done to some 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
of the universe. This conflict is not inaccessibly hidden once you realize how your attitude to both 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
searching, thinking, discriminating, evaluating is not directed to hidden emotional areas, the movement of the emotions is 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
is so because consciousness does not penetrate the hidden layers. Movement, which should direct the search for 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
the entanglements only by looking deeply into your hidden primitive feelings in connection with your early environment 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
will facilitate matters greatly. Try to detect the hidden fear of your feelings that stems from humanity's 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
face and come to terms with these heretofore hidden primitive feelings, when you overcome your unreasonable fear 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
have truly been desirous of understanding their most hidden problems, again and again experience phases of relief 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
which is always a remedy for inherent and hidden selfishness and self-centeredness. But it does imply a 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
the person to understand that while the hitherto hidden greed is unfair, the subsequent measure against it 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
or any other natural, legitimate need and self-expression, hidden one-sidedness often creates overt one-sidedness in the opposite 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
is not always easy, for they are so hidden. They manifest subtly and yet distinctly once you 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
of the barriers between your consciousness and the hidden areas of your psyche. These hidden areas are 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
and the hidden areas of your psyche. These hidden areas are not always covered up and unconscious 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
identical with one another and with your innermost, hidden attitudes toward love, regardless of your conscious, healthy 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
I showed the various symptoms by which the hidden, opposing currents can be detected. Discovering them is 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
detectable and can therefore be corrected. Whatever is hidden from awareness continues to govern you without your 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
it is of utmost importance to detect such hidden erroneous outlooks. It is often forgotten that the 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
will all the productive elements which are still hidden rise to the surface. Only when you are 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
no-current and the yes-current predominates without a contradictory hidden undercurrent. To put it differently: not only is 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
have to wait for something faraway and completely hidden. First, observe those layers that are easily accessible 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
will be able to tap the constructive elements, hidden deeply within. Often, however, the process does not 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
is often used. Through establishing contact with the hidden unconscious and understanding the language of your unconscious 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
it requires the training of becoming aware of hidden emotional reactions, of subtle, elusive, vaguely felt emotional 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
stronger and conscious, while the negative one remains hidden. It is therefore essential that the hidden areas 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
remains hidden. It is therefore essential that the hidden areas of the soul substance be uncovered in 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
friends on the path, have recently discovered a hidden No you could never have felt before. On 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
products of the no-current. If there were no hidden no-current, there would be no doubt that you 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
you deeply want to transform. Is there a hidden No? Why? What is the fear? The unwillingness 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
The more you become aware of all the hidden levels of your being, the more you are 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE

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