| it would make for a smugness in that individual, which could possible wind up in passive, or | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| or a no. Again it depends on the individual. A positive lesson could be learned by individuals | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| which this pseudo-solution is predominant varies with each individual. So does the extent it is counteracted by | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| all costs. But the indignity inflicted on the individual by such self-denial results in self-contempt and self-dislike | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| All this has to be found in your individual work. Do not forget that such attitudes born | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| any threat to the healthy growth of the individual -- are warded off. But in distortion the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| be found in its particular form within each individual who works on this path, for there are | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| primary pseudo-solutions, present to some extent in every individual, have to be acutely felt and experienced by | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| other, both pseudo-solutions will be found in every individual. For some, one predominates and the other will | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the psyche and the whole structure of the individual. A further and very common compromise solution is | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| possible and have to be uncovered by the individual. Beware of rigid evaluation that each pseudo-solution contains | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| inner pseudo-defenses that are so destructive for the individual, have nevertheless contributed to remove the barriers among | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from religion and from the soul of the individual, rebellion against what is truly good, wise, and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| state, you cannot come out a free, strong individual. You may again fall back into the misleading | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| clear that religion is a matter of each individual soul developing to its optimum point by way | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| your emotions, you will find not only definite individual negative emotions, such as hostility, resentment, aggressiveness, and | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| relinquish takes time. The time varies with each individual. Again, no generalization can or should be made | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of how all this applies to your own individual case will your confusion, and then your depression | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| effects and details that are relevant for an individual human personality. But the example may clarify a | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| makes you believe you are more of an individual and less of a machine when you constantly | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| more he or she is alive, a distinct individual, and not a machine, divorced from warmth, courage | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| courage, and humor. The true self of every individual is the very opposite of that which you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| authority with such powers, whether it is an individual or an institution. You may simply project your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| determine in a general answer. It is completely individual. My advice is, in order to determine whether | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| important underlying reasons. It is up to the individual to find out which, and how many, of | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| God. Can you say a word about an individual making progress along this path by just doing | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| whole. This merging is then perceived in the individual, as well as in the universe. Every universe | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| experienced by each one of you in your individual work. It is so much easier for the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| There is no more need for defenses; the individual is open to life, to living, to loving | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| as a child, rather than as a particular individual. You suffer from this, although you may never | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and justice that this understanding gives to an individual. How much time it takes to reach the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| yourself, to be in full possession of the individual you are, with all the resources, the strength | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| accrue in one way or another. According to individual makeup and the physical resistance of the various | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| begin to allow your defense mechanism, whatever your individual pseudo- solutions are, to go to war. Needless | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| often healthy, provided it is done in an individual way and not merely by adhering to dogma | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the underlying causes were not eliminated in the individual. At least, the contagiousness and the direct outer | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| will be able to apply this knowledge to individual cases in their surroundings. The sins, as well | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| have already been made. Perhaps first only in individual homes, by individual teachers, but gradually change will | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| made. Perhaps first only in individual homes, by individual teachers, but gradually change will become general. Until | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| little step towards the further self-awareness of each individual. Nothing can help eliminate suffering and confusion so | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| man that are of utmost importance for his individual growth. This does not mean that I advocate | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| at this moment, you happen to be. Each individual aspect that you view in yourself in such | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| fruitful interrelationship. It will contribute more to your individual progress than anything you are capable of imagining | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| by your mere being, by your emanations. Each individual going through such a path of self-finding, is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| an evil, is exactly what happens in the individual soul. When man attempts to change superficially, he | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to the love current within yourself. Within each individual there exists a well of wisdom and love | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| strain toward expansion, growth, union, and integration. Each individual entity, being a universe unto itself, follows this | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| unrest, and the absence of peace. For the individual the same holds true. Often people become physically | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| and error is a test from which each individual can learn. When you build something together in | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| Then it is a question of what the individual does with this impact of strength, with the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| nearness to God? In the course of the individual work, every one of you has times when | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| Nowadays you do not call them miracles. An individual steeped in this earth-world, blind to the power | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| organism, I do not refer only to an individual. A group like this is a living, growing | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| its profounder meaning, depends, of course, on the individual, on the capacity and willingness of people to | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| It is exactly the same process with an individual. A person who has potential to grow but | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| actually exert less effort in the direction of individual development, but is closer to the given potential | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| other goal. There are riches contained in each individual soul. They are yours for the asking. It | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| themselves this strong tendency to need control. Each individual resorts to different means to exert control. Now | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| better creature, the forces of society coerce the individual to follow and obey moral standards. Because of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| be used in your self-search and extended in individual cases. Does that answer your question? QUESTION: Yes | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| a shorter period may discover certain aspects another individual will come across only after more extended work | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| principle cannot unfold in the life of the individual. Thus the faculties for experiencing maximum pleasure are | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| is as it should be. In a mature individual, the pleasure drive is not self- centered and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| a lag in overall development. Frequently an immature individual will use the pleasure drive for other needs | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| take place on the level for which the individual is potentially ready. Where movement, consciousness, and experience | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Where movement, consciousness, and experience function harmoniously, the individual is fulfilled and essentially happy, regardless of occasional | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the erotic and sexual force in the growing individual. But often painful experience melts into the pleasure | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| This simple, primitive struggle still exists within each individual. In itself it is not sinful, shameful, or | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Be in peace. Be in God! 120. THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| -- to the one-celled life organism, to the individual human entity, and to humanity as a whole | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| But you can make a comparison between the individual laws and processes of growth and those of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| a wider vision of the relationship between the individual and the totality of all individuals. It will | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| entity, governed by the same laws as the individual who is a part of the bigger body | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| body -- humankind. There are aspects within the individual that you do not fully understand and therefore | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| particles of being, as between humankind and the individual. They conform to identical laws of living and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| suffices to attempt an overall comparison between the individual human being and humanity as a whole. Let | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| growth takes place on all levels and the individual is integrated. But as you know only too | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| on being ruled; government was arbitrary, and the individual lived accordingly. Each person ruled weaker ones and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the development of an entity, be it an individual human being or humankind as a whole. Each | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| look at transitional periods of growth in the individual from the point of view of crisis. When | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| So it is with the world. The average individual who grows into adulthood may have a number | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| be likened to the different aspects of an individual. On this path, you have discovered how you | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| will be comparable to the conscious concepts an individual has gained through absorbing good education, good influences | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| making an attempt to do so. As the individual grows capable of dissolving destructive, childish trends through | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| a particularly painful and trying period because the individual leaves the accustomed and safe period of childhood | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| false premises, just as you do as an individual? You still see life too much as a | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| arbitrary. It is an actual fact that the individual human body, soul, and spirit is identical with | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| organism it forms a part of, as the individual forms a part of the larger body, humankind | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| is identical with the growing selfhood of the individual. The more each one of you pursues this | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| this question is that there are so many individual souls involved. For the totality of humankind to | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the totality of humankind to reach maturity, all individual parts of it have to do so, just | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| development. Again, this can be likened to the individual who finds the pathwork and self-confrontation becoming easier | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| maturity, again let us compare it with the individual. An individual entity is bound to the earth | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| let us compare it with the individual. An individual entity is bound to the earth sphere until | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| know it. Almost imperceptibly, as evolution grows, the individual creates a new kind of body matter -- | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of the answer is a comparison with the individual. Let us assume that as a young person | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the world. It is just as in the individual who is bound to retain constructive facets of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| proved unsatisfactory with this specific constructive trend. One individual or one civilization does not invent truth. Truth | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| organism. Besides, as I have also said, the individual too may be more or less adult and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the type of feeling or need. The integrated individual with a full rich life expresses a variety | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| thought wrong and bad and therefore repressed. Each individual has to specifically ascertain in what particular respect | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| to temporary situations. After a poignant disappointment, an individual may deny a hitherto accepted need and, subsequently | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| find and develop all your potentials -- your individual assets as well as all the general human | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| productively in union, by living self-sufficiently as an individual. To begin establishing this benign cycle of interflowing | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| and living, to that immeasurable happiness which every individual human soul so desperately yearns for. I cannot | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| even if they result from attempts of one individual to pass on a true experience, will not | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| smaller form, of the whole universe. Both the individual and the universe exist because of a certain | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| Again, this applies to a stellar system, an individual planet, as well as every entity inhabiting the | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| planet, as well as every entity inhabiting the individual planets, from mineral to the highest spiritual creature | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and disunity. This general explanation applies to your individual daily life as well as to great concepts | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| Of course, the reasons may vary with each individual, but the underlying causes have to be clearly | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| self-evident truth for the spiritually and emotionally mature individual. One must be fully self-sufficient in order to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| do without an aspect of life that every individual is meant to enjoy -- either peace or | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| your personal development. It never happens that an individual passes with one step from one state into | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| felt reality. Once understanding has been reached, the individual is ready to approach the next phase. Many | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| fear and reluctance that applies to every single individual: fear of being. The fear of being means | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| or any other truthful path must bring the individual, and that is: floating with the universal forces | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the beauty of the world, all that an individual could possibly require for his or her enjoyment | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| Effort made against one's will, forced on the individual because life requires it, is the result of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| makes one tired. If you look at your individual path from this point of view and question | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| a crucial step in the evolution of an individual. The full realization of your limited outlook signifies | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| which seems excessive. Happiness must further not only individual self-expression, expansion, and the inner manifestation of the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| itself together in a tight knot. When the individual re-establishes the balance, fences dissolve, and the expansion | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| impregnating the self with truth, so that the individual knows the truth and the universal forces can | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| because disappointment is taken for granted. So the individual plays a game, acting as though the possibility | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| unnecessary, they also claim that the truly evolved individual is master of the universe, and that he | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| there is a fear of losing control, the individual must learn the ability to relinquish it, to | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| must be at least potentially present in every individual. In fact, only by doing so can a | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| and again, to the earth sphere. When an individual goes through the liberating event of shedding the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| of the mass image that again overwhelms the individual. It happens frequently that an individual registers at | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| overwhelms the individual. It happens frequently that an individual registers at the time of transition a feeling | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| will also strengthen your selfhood. By honoring the individual rhythm of your personal path, you assume self-responsibility | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| truth absolute perfection does exist, attainable for each individual; that unlimited expansion of faculties and forces, in | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| in the universe as well as in the individual, makes this perfection possible. When you become your | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| loving increases one's withdrawal and isolation. Many an individual is half-willing, but this half-willingness denies love rather | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| issue itself may warrant justified anger, but an individual may not be able to express that kind | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| express that kind. To the extent that an individual is capable of experiencing and expressing real love | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| person too anxious to express justified anger, that individual is as yet incapable of feeling healthy anger | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| these words exactly; use your own words, your individual way of verbalizing and expressing the essence of | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| is life itself, as it unfolds for the individual. It is experience. It is condition, circumstances, fate | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| as a whole as well as to the individual. Generally, it has not been sufficiently understood because | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| of life. Evolution, my friends, means that each individual, through the process of personal self- confrontation and | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| happen. Gradually, through this process of growth, one individual after another reorients the soul movements, the soul | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| into satiation, stagnation -- a dead-end street. The individual then fluctuates between the equally undesirable states of | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| hitherto unconscious destructive material to the surface, the individual often feels as though an indwelling destructive entity | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| in beautiful order and harmony. You as an individual can change from being an isolated creature keeping | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| As simple as this is, you as an individual cannot understand these words unless you have made | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| in whatever fashion this may manifest for an individual. When you are in the unity of being | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| how it is a direct creation of the individual. Just because this understanding could be immediate and | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |