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| only the near and dear ones. The spiritual infant has to learn to love gradually. The more | 18 FREE WILL |
| are made before the first birth. And this infant is carried to the mother it was destined | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| place. QUESTION: Would that hold true for an infant that has not developed? Just started? In a | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them. With a child it is similar. An infant or a very young child knows only the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| my friends, this sounds strong, but in the infant part of your soul, as compared with your | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| is sinful. The sex instinct arises in the infant. The more immature the creature, the more sexuality | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| entity is born. It exists in the small infant. The infant's idea of happiness is fulfillment of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| a person may be, a remnant of this infant remains with him for the rest of his | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| its will, the world looks black. When the infant is hungry but for a few minutes, these | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| lacks a time concept, but also because the infant does not know that the period of hunger | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| a process of inner maturing and growth. The infant realizes very early that the kind of happiness | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| from the point of view of the inner infant. First, discover where the infant still exists in | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of the inner infant. First, discover where the infant still exists in you with its desires, feelings | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| infinitely more gratifying. Until you have experienced the infant in you, you cannot understand certain inner conflicts | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| exchange for the world of utopia that the infant desires. Intellectual conviction and outer behavior are in | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of your idealized self. This behavior is the infant reacting in you; your brain tries to assimilate | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| brain tries to assimilate the clamor of the infant in a rationally acceptable way, but this does | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the concept and the desire. By bringing the infant in you out into the open, you can | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to let go of something useless. Hidden, the infant would go on destroying your life, no matter | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in the human personality. I said that the infant in you desires everything the way it wants | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the human attitude toward life as such. The infant in you does not see and does not | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| no tragedy to have made a mistake. The infant thinks you must perish if you do, and | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| demands of the universal rulership principle of the infant in the human personality. Yet the cosmic current | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| so much about pain and death. If the infant in you matures, you inevitably realize that you | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| of healing the sick currents, of helping the infant in them to mature. That would enable them | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| is connected to the basic picture of the infant in you. Therefore you are still under the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| begins. Birth is a painful experience for the infant. Other painful experiences are bound to follow, although | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| occur earlier, it would be impossible for the infant to survive without oxygen. But there are additional | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for the mother, as well as for the infant. The event of physical birth corresponds with something | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| religion and your unconscious insistence on remaining an infant combine to produce this God-image. In the transitional | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you an example on the physical level: an infant will feel the strong urge to use its | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the Creator. Only the very immature, the spiritual infant, will abuse himself, not knowing that it cannot | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| go into it a little deeper. When the infant is born and grows into a child, its | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| strongly than the average adult human being. The infant is not burdened with guilts, shames and misconceptions | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| psyches the infants they once were. And the infant responds and reacts as it once did. It | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| or to withhold. The basic struggle of the infant is to attain the pleasure and eliminate that | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| a whole. Let us begin with infancy. An infant lacks ego-consciousness. There is no self-consciousness, no sense | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| or infliction of pain cause violent anger. The infant knows nothing beyond this. There is no reason | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| no logic and no sense of responsibility. The infant is completely isolated in its own sensing of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| exist on emotional, intellectual and spiritual levels. The infant is not only entirely a physical creature, but | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| undeveloped, problematic areas, you must encounter this identical infant living within yourself. It is subdued by other | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| better. But while this selfish, self-centered and limited infant dwells within, it must always be in conflict | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| be in conflict with the whole personality. The infant can grow only if it is allowed to | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the world exists, the person is dependent. An infant is, as you well know, utterly dependent. Concomitantly | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| one side of the scale, we have the infant who has no sense of selfhood, no awareness | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| For this growth process to take place, the infant must develop its mind, its intellect, its reason | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| whole. Primitive humanity can be likened to the infant. I do not have to repeat the words | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| apply all that has been said about the infant to primitive humanity. History will bear me out | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| a traumatic shock for the baby. When the infant is weaned from the mother's breast, it is | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| as it relates to the pleasure principle. The infant, striving for its pleasure, is in its blindness | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| still in the position of the child or infant. I repeat, this never implies that anyone can | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| When you give up the self-centeredness of the infant -- and, at the same time, the greed | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| at the same time, the greed of the infant that cannot brook denial -- it will no | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| your horizon. For you still experience like an infant who only sees the moment, and that is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| applies to all levels of being. When an infant learns to walk, it experiences a disunity between | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| you to understand the expressions of the destructive infant correctly, without exaggeration, so that you do not | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| a hidden inner self- deprecation. When the destructive infant reveals itself, one could fall prey to believing | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| complete perspective on the revelation of the egotistic infant, one needs to ask constantly the guidance of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the guidance of the universal self. When the infant begins to express itself more freely because the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the help of the universal self. When the infant reveals itself, the ego should again ask for | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| step in meditation is to reeducate the destructive infant that is now no longer entirely unconscious. This | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| that is now no longer entirely unconscious. This infant with its false beliefs, its stubborn resistance, its | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| accept the mean little creature, the ignorant little infant in you without losing your sense of self-worth | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| The panicky attitude toward one's own unfolding destructive infant does more damage than the destructive infant itself | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| destructive infant does more damage than the destructive infant itself. You must learn to listen to it | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| its expressions without hating yourself, without pushing the infant away. Only with such an attitude can you | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| way will effect the gradual maturing of this infant. The ego determines its goal to change the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| this balance becomes a steady state, the destructive infant grows up. It is not killed or annihilated | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| my friends, as a new, living force. This infant must not be slain. It must be instructed | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| reached in your development. Take, for example, an infant. When an infant experiences a painful physical sensation | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| development. Take, for example, an infant. When an infant experiences a painful physical sensation, it is incapable | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| is completely blotted out from its consciousness. The infant merely experiences the effect -- the pain. When | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| experiences the effect -- the pain. When the infant grows into a young child, it begins to | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| if that interferes with your desires. The little infant will then no longer make its claims of | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| soul, but it takes different forms in an infant and in an adult. For an infant, closeness | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| an infant and in an adult. For an infant, closeness is an entirely passive experience: the child | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| know, blocks to true fulfillment exist because the infant within the adult personality still seeks its own | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| much more expanded consciousness. The consciousness of the infant is still partially tuned in on the state | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| it, you will come to know that the infant can grow. Only in the acceptance of the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| of the entity that takes possession of the infant body finds itself awake to physical sensations and | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| on the other. So, for example, a small infant is almost entirely in the individual state. Do | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| potential. This phase can be likened to the infant who needs the mother. You often find individuals | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| very distinct phases in human growth. When the infant is ready to unfold dormant capacities to learn | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| caricature of a woman and is truly an infant who leans on others, who negates her autonomy | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| noticeable indeed. Consider the drastic change of an infant growing into childhood, then into adolescence, and later | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| organs, the body, the whole appearance change from infant to child to adolescent to adult to old | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| already work extensively on that. You discover the infant in you who demands omnipotence and magical solutions | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| this possibility. Freedom does not mean what the infant imagines: no boundaries at all, taking the line | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| force an adult into the circumstances of an infant. This would be incongruous, perverse and confining, to | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |