| as so many unconscious or half-conscious reactions remain hidden, you are oblivious to the depths and the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| resent most in the other is their own hidden tendency toward the opposite choice. Most human beings | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| possible to feel the subtle climate of the hidden atmosphere of either/or. Extended progress on your path | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| conscious one deliberately reaches toward the inner, still hidden one, removing those false elements which have created | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| strengthen the knowledge and finally penetrate the more hidden and resistant layers of your psyche. It is | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| you are distorted and the real self is hidden from your outer awareness, control ends. It is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| emotions cannot be numbed. They can only be hidden. This, then, increases guilt. If you were to | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| this way: All the destructive emotions that are hidden underground create problems, hazards, difficulties that manifest in | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of a person. It is true that these hidden negative emotions, that come from distorted values and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| unfulfillment. You will see why you keep yourself hidden from yourself and from life; why you withdrew | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| As long as you keep part of yourself hidden, you cannot possibly be free. You then must | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| fear of yourself. Some individuals meet that private, hidden part comparatively quickly, and despite their fear overcome | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to the degree that you fear your own hidden self. My dearest friends, I think most of | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| your attitude toward what you find in the hidden chamber of your psyche, you need not even | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| over your guards to keep the secret part hidden. Every vestige of energy is geared to controlling | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| up. So what is bad about the secret, hidden self is not the actual measure of badness | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| reveal yourself to yourself; nothing needs to be hidden, feared, avoided. And to those who still struggle | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you automatically release and bring to fruition more hidden potentialities than you could possibly visualize in this | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| two approaches. Some concentrate only on activating the hidden powers; others concentrate on meeting themselves and their | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the live center becomes more and more overlaid, hidden and covered by tough substances. Without an adult | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| only to certain areas, which may be so hidden and vague, so subtle and elusive, that it | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| your negative desires. You had repressed, denied, and hidden them, having superimposed false positive ones. Hence you | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| -- not necessarily in action, but predominantly in hidden emotions that can lead only to indirect corresponding | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| resistance to correcting these unhappy areas is a hidden, irrational fear which comes from the misconception: If | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| it impossible to uncover the fallacy of your hidden belief. You hold on to it secretly, born | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| be relieved only when you overcome the pride hidden by your shame. The intensely personal work of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| a temporary upheaval. The key is not as hidden as it may seem. Only ask whether you | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| a crass outer manifestation; it may be a hidden little deviation that does not seem to harm | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| they can reconvert into their original form, the hidden real self, which then begins to manifest. This | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| is for humans even to find the subtle, hidden area where they discourage the full natural flow | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| never so, and there is always a more hidden level where the numbness is very deliberately instituted | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| emotional climate. Wherever such negativity exists - - hidden or overt -- one does not trust in | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| When you, consciously or unconsciously, deeply sense the hidden little mechanisms by which you avoid being straightforward | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| opposite forces dividing the inner person, hence no hidden fears. The more lightly psychic material flows, the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the numbness that is the result of a hidden layer of fear and resignation. The latter is | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| integrity and dishonesty existed, perhaps on the deepest hidden levels, honesty must be totally established; where an | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| that they are only destructive according to your hidden misconceptions. Yet, in actuality, you still fear the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to experience the likewise ever-present, but still deeply hidden constructive feelings, the positive power inherent in your | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| aspect of living. All the power of the hidden fear of self may converge on it. Or | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| not the last and final reality about your hidden self, you will have the courage to go | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is -- one's true worth -- must remain hidden as well. Therefore, answers to such questions apply | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| us now look a bit closer at this hidden corner of your psyche where all of you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| You conclude that your destructive feelings must be hidden so as not to antagonize this other person | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| are torn between the force of the deeply hidden original need and the doubt that you have | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| and within your right. But when using a hidden, emotional forcing-current, you go about seeking satisfaction in | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the areas where you cheat. They may be hidden, indeed, but they always exist to the extent | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| it or not. Each thought, each desire, each hidden fear, each shrinking away from experience is using | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| separate destructive, self-willed part and a still more hidden infinite divine power -- both being essentially of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| you do. This activity of catching one's little hidden dishonesties is the kind of constructiveness that is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| are nothing. Hence, you must keep both assumptions hidden from consciousness and you cannot examine them. This | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| calmly, and determinedly the destructive part of the hidden self to express itself. Observe what comes forth | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| a person's divine being, the less encrusted and hidden it is, the more clearly the outer personality | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the ensuing rage and hostility will build up hidden destructive selfishness. In your emotions and hidden desires | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| up hidden destructive selfishness. In your emotions and hidden desires you pay no heed at all to | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| give no reality to your own self. The hidden, destructive selfishness comes from fear and makes guilt | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| experience on this path the necessity of contacting hidden cruelty, brutality, sadism, vindictiveness, and malice. As you | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the reality of life: that your attitudes, your hidden thoughts and emotions, and nothing else, create your | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to give. It knows where you play those hidden little games of deception, dramatization, and pretense with | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| seem very simple, but it is not. For hidden self-rejection and the even more hidden reasons for | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| not. For hidden self-rejection and the even more hidden reasons for it are very obscure when one | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and close your eyes to. Find that obscure, hidden, and yet available reaction that wards off pleasure | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| real one. The false guilt also may be hidden at first, but when you discover it, you | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| One may even discover that there are fewer hidden negative attitudes than overt healthy attitudes. But by | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| attention on these vague reactions, the contradictory wishes, hidden fears, and negative desires will surface. When they | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| attitudes, but this specificity may be even more hidden from your awareness. It is quite possible that | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of what you thought was unconscious is not hidden at all. Observe this especially when you find | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the opposite of what you wish to be hidden. The role becomes like second nature, but it | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| the personality is truly and genuinely constructive without hidden destructiveness. And can you perceive the pain of | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| reluctant movement is painful. Rather than denying the hidden reluctance, focus on it. Relaxed and determined movement | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| this pathwork has gone through and confronted such hidden and irrational feelings. If you really question them | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| The most difficult challenges are on the most hidden emotional levels, since emotions cannot be directly willed | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| created circumstances to be true in many ways. Hidden, easily glossed-over thoughts, when finally looked at, eventually | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| means induces you to instantly give up the hidden desire. It is a stubborn, destructive wish, with | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the guilt on others, which is always a hidden form of hostility that whitewashes the self. One | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| your personal, undesirable experiences result entirely from this hidden conflict between two irreconcilable attitudes, one side of | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| two irreconcilable attitudes, one side of which is hidden from you so that it has greater power | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| happy expansion, then this indicates that there are hidden layers of consciousness that contradict what you may | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| of course, this cannot be done alone. Your hidden deliberate negativity must be recognized and paid attention | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| the effects of this fact and make the hidden intention more conscious. Then consider the possibility that | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and say, Whatever is in me, whatever is hidden that I ought to know about myself, whatever | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| easily fluctuate from an outer self-aggrandizement to a hidden inner self- deprecation. When the destructive infant reveals | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| take on the habit of first questioning your hidden wrong assumptions and destructive reactions when anything unwelcome | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| truth and change; by the willingness to expose hidden shame; and the receptive attitude in which the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| in contact with the evil of their previously hidden destructive side. Conversely, if there is a rift | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the person that thwarts fulfillment. Even when this hidden agenda is glimpsed and conceptual acceptance develops, it | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| the alternation of life movements will bring those hidden impurities to the surface. It is up to | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| pleasure and pain. First, simply observe the previously hidden reactions. The more you encounter your negation of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| be particularly concerned with observing your vague and hidden reactions. Do you fear losing this state? And | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| and deliberately, or in a more subtle and hidden way -- for the sake of gaining approval | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| also deal with the confusion of your guilt. Hidden guilt is devastating, because it creates a vicious | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| and attitudes. Also, we must consider whether the hidden tendency to be destructive can leave your actions | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| I just said that it is unthinkable for hidden hate not to manifest in some way, even | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| said before about the effects and influences of hidden attitudes. Yet to assume self-destructive, self-eroding guilt about | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| attitudes. Yet to assume self-destructive, self-eroding guilt about hidden destructiveness makes matters so much worse. Due to | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of you. If you completely identify with your hidden destructive part, it is impossible to live and | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| confrontation of your own. The signs of your hidden evil are always there in your anxious, angry | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| leave its indelible marks on your life. These hidden fears are not one iota less painful and | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in the deepest recesses of the soul, totally hidden from consciousness. This is what I called years | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| for me. When such irrational messages of the hidden self can be deciphered and admitted, the manipulative | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| has avoided. If you can so discern your hidden messages, you will make a great step toward | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| a very obscure way, which can easily be hidden, rationalized, denied, or explained away and the emphasis | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| many respects of your being, look for these hidden reactions in you whenever you feel consistently anxious | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| your good when you bring everything that is hidden out and evaluate it in truth. This takes | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| pay attention to the lower self with its hidden evil, its dishonesty, cheating, and camouflaged hate and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| uses in order to keep the lower self hidden. One also has to know when the moment | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to become more conscious of what is still hidden, and to experience more feelings. You have to | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| of fulfillment and deprivation, at least until the hidden wish for deprivation is unearthed. Meditation is a | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| this other part of the soul, in a hidden corner of the psyche, which says just the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| regardless of how subtle and covert it is, hidden, perhaps, beneath a tense, striving for fulfillment. Such | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| you continue to disregard the power of the hidden negative cause. Even if you are already aware | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| effects from others to you. No matter how hidden you keep the negative intentions, no matter how | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| you want to avoid your feelings and your hidden thoughts and intentions, you create resistance. Resistance is | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| the wisdom embedded in you, and the love hidden inside you, ready to flow out. Everyone of | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| the aid of your helper, to investigate your hidden attitude toward the specific unhappiness. I do not | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |