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| laws will continually increase their freedom and their independence. This is the immutable law, which cannot be | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| soul, because this means having strength, power, and independence. Such a person lives with the divine law | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| does not mean they are developed. Development means independence, the ability to select truth from untruth. Therefore | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| will be free and will feel a new independence from other people's behavior or reactions and know | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| from dependency on their unconscious motives to their independence as free children of God. My first advice | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| other side to encounter the light of true independence. Only after you have recognized your own responsibility | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| experience -- will you have truly gained real independence. So do not seek this liberation outwardly. It | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you have over yourself, and therefore the more independence from the influence of other beings, spirit or | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| morals. So if you have the courage and independence to think through what the outer morals are | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a point of view of growth and personal independence, what should be encouraged is to learn to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a tremendous step towards real freedom and true independence. This will free you of your basic fear | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| can never err, you could never attain true independence. You would always remain a cripple in the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| real sense, the sooner you will find freedom, independence, and the real and healthy relationship to the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thereby make you free and further your growth, independence and happiness. QUESTION: Might I ask, how much | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| me to develop myself? Does it further my independence, my self-responsibility, my maturity, my self-honesty? Or does | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that some of my students show signs of independence and creativity. But, somehow, many of them fail | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| an opposite outer reaction of extreme and ungenuine independence. Be on the lookout for this, my friends | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and urgency. Only on the basis of personal independence can you have healthy interdependence. However, both can | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| aggressively antagonizes people, shows an unhealthy, uncaring, false independence that comes from and also leads to more | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| camouflaged, never expresses a free choice for healthy independence and interdependence. Now, my friends, are there any | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| unhealthy dependence, as well as healthy and unhealthy independence. How can we distinguish between the two? ANSWER | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| question poses a problem similar to that of independence and interdependence. Only personal self-analysis can provide the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| peace of mind. It is security and healthy independence and allows one to achieve a maximum of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| negative tendencies, believing them to prove strength and independence, superiority and aloofness, would be deeply ashamed of | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| for power. This person thinks that power and independence from others will solve all problems. This type | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| This particular idealized self-image dictates standards of godlike independence and power. Believing in complete self-sufficiency, such a | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Since this idealized self-image demands such power and independence from feelings and human emotions as no human | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| non-attachment to others, and a strong urge for independence. However much the underlying emotional motivations may be | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| spite of all your striving toward a distorted independence of either the aggressive or the withdrawn type | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| will take place. It will strengthen your true independence, so that being appreciated by others will no | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| could yield sometimes, while still asserting a healthy independence. QUESTION: I wonder, could a distorted attempt at | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| refuse the apparent hardship of adulthood, self-responsibility, and independence. To the child in you it seems much | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you encounter in a human being overemphasis on independence, hostile domineering tendencies, toughness, and denial of all | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| outer personality takes on a false freedom and independence in a poor imitation of the real qualities | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| through accepting aloneness. Such acceptance will strengthen the independence and self-responsibility essential to the God-creature you wish | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and the unknown is connected with acceptance of independence and self-responsibility. Both indicate spiritual and emotional adulthood | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| your equally healthy and legitimate need for self-assertion, independence, success, happiness, fulfillment -- all of which require | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| tie that keeps you from experiencing freedom and independence. You are also kept from loving, from finding | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| does the solution to submit rob you of independence and strength; it creates just as much isolation | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and effects and of the sense of strength, independence, self-reliance, and justice that this understanding gives to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| time. When man comes into the state of independence, when he lets go of this imaginary God | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| To deny children such guideposts would not promote independence. On the contrary, if you let children starve | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| in precarious, hidden, and distorted ways. Unfortunately, emotional independence is often misunderstood as isolation, whereas withdrawal from | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| not increase your self-confidence, your self- reliance, your independence, and your self-respect. So reach inside. Realize that | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| often thwarts his manhood. He is frightened of independence because he thereby seems to renounce the privilege | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| only to women or children. In fighting against independence, he fights against his manhood. But in denying | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and activity in many areas of life, the independence of her spirit, could truly enhance her womanhood | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and conflicts rob you of freedom, selfhood, self-sufficiency, independence. Many of you begin to experience the meaning | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| begin to experience the meaning of gaining true independence through giving up childish, limited self-centeredness. Hence, self-centeredness | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Each such phase is a step toward further independence, going into the world, away from seclusion. When | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| in itself, makes the expression of self-assertion -- independence, natural healthy aggressiveness -- problematic because his own | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| angry or hurt child within yourself, then your independence and self- respect should consistently grow and give | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of attaining selfhood is chosen, instead of true independence. Concomitantly, your deep psyche feels that there should | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| but it cannot ever give you autonomy and independence, so that, sooner or later, the illusion of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| acting, initiating, activating, doing. This aspect includes self-responsibility, independence, autonomy, free choice, and the power of the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| only way out. The beautiful reality of this independence cannot be conveyed to those who still battle | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the sake of rebelling against others to prove independence of spirit. Every one of these links has | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| with the equally damaging tendency to prove your independence by blind and meaningless rebellion. Rebellion no more | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| is often falsely viewed as strength and true independence. In reality, a self who blindly closes itself | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| your submission, and believe you must prove your independence. In both instances you violate the interests of | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| that alone can bring about true selfhood, autonomy, independence. You have a stake in your lack of | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| sets in, is a spirit of courage and independence, a fighting spirit against submission to conformity. Only | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| purification is thorough, reliable and real. Then true independence from one's surroundings is being established and thus | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| reasons to exploit you. This selfishness rooted in independence can easily recognize and refute other people's exploitative | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| need and dependency are more dormant. A false independence is then courted in which give and take | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| It will further it as well as your independence. As you develop, you enrich the group, and | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| for themselves until a certain minimal autonomy and independence is established. Once this creative channel is established | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| systems will no longer be confused with inner independence of spirit. Personal identity will no longer be | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| struggling consciousness always straining to maintain an exaggerated independence and individualism at the expense of others, out | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| a new groundedness in real inner freedom and independence that voluntarily chooses monogamous commitment because it yields | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| or need to be. The new-age woman combines independence, self- responsibility, full-fledged adulthood with the softness and | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| I do not mean this in terms of independence and self-sufficiency, for obviously the child is not | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| things right. The more strident your protestations for independence, the more suspect they are. The more you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| versus community; about self-surrender versus selfhood and real independence. True selfhood creates a social being who is | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |