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 Inferiority.................72
as you want to appear, their sense of inferiority will grow. They will feel, consciously or unconsciously 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
about yourself. You will lose your sense of inferiority. Yet in order to do so, you must 20 GOD: THE CREATION
rejecter's own fear of life, of disappointment, of inferiority, of insecurity, and any number of symptoms of 32 DECISION-MAKING
to self-despisal which is the true cause of inferiority complexes, no matter how well they may be 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
real content. For instance, someone may have an inferiority complex about his intelligence. This is manifest. This 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
explanations. What is shyness anyway? What is an inferiority complex for that matter? It is nothing else 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
same thing. Shyness is one manifestation of an inferiority complex. Brashness is another. It is a question 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
a question of individual temperament and character. All inferiority complexes have the common denominator of pride and 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
pride and self-will would not be gratified. No inferiority complex would exist if this were not the 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
case and you could not be shy. An inferiority complex is not determined by one's actual worth 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
one is. So if my friends examine their inferiority feelings from that point of view, they will 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
with what you have just said about the inferiority complex, you gave a different explanation on another 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
there must be one. That was that an inferiority complex is really a guilt complex, which is 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY
to individual. In every image you will find inferiority feelings, guilt feelings, hostility, hate, aggression, ignorance, resentment 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
result must be a feeling of inadequacy and inferiority. Since you do not know that the standards 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
to live up to your high standards. All inferiority feelings in human nature can be reduced to 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
is not felt and experienced, you cannot shed inferiority feelings. You have to uncover the whole vicious 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
self. Whatever rationalizations you use to explain your inferiority feelings, they are never the real cause. Others 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
real reason for your feelings of inadequacy and inferiority! This truth is borne out by the fact 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
most successful, most beautiful people often having worse inferiority feelings than others who are less brilliant, less 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
less successful, or less beautiful. This inadequacy and inferiority serve to further close the great vicious circle 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
but another if you hold other people's opinions. Inferiority feelings are another reason for not having your 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
these attitudes cause self- contempt and feelings of inferiority. You always despise yourself because in some way 53 SELF-LOVE
root of your self-contempt, of your feelings of inferiority. Nothing else really is. All the other things 53 SELF-LOVE
other things you may find to explain your inferiority feelings are but symptoms and rationalizations. To the 53 SELF-LOVE
side, you come to the root of your inferiority feelings and your lack of self-respect; not before 53 SELF-LOVE
others, or to alleviate an inherent feeling of inferiority, then it is unhealthy: then it becomes a 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
of being undeserving, which is nothing but an inferiority feeling. Such feelings are rarely based on what 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
even know why you have such feelings of inferiority. They may not coincide at all with your 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
would cease to have the gnawing feeling of inferiority. Or, if it can be altered, you could 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
tell you, my friends, that you never have inferiority feelings because of something that you cannot change 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
itself push you into the despair triggered by inferiority feelings -- provided your attitude about it is 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
elements. Remember this. The real reasons for your inferiority feelings are the little deviations that result from 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
unconscious only, they manifest as a feeling of inferiority. That is why one loses one's inferiority feelings 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
of inferiority. That is why one loses one's inferiority feelings as one finds one's unconscious deviations and 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
you may be unaware of, will then cause inferiority feelings in you, even though the very goal 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
certain, my friends, that the only reason for inferiority feelings is self- deception about your motives: why 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
the desire, action, or attitude may be, the inferiority complex must cease to the degree that you 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
you desire wealth so as to alleviate an inferiority complex, then you want wealth to fulfill something 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
associating this concept with unhealthy self-blame, guilt, and inferiority feelings. In other words, the opposite happens of 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
word self-responsibility to nourish your guilt and your inferiority feelings. You might say to yourself, Since I 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
God bless this hour. We have often discussed inferiority feelings and their true origin. This is an 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
clearly by now that the real reasons for inferiority feelings are hidden. Subconsciously you do register your 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
extra-special in the eyes of the world, your inferiority feelings will vanish; that when others agree with 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
yourself, and this, more than anything else, causes inferiority feelings. Often, you cannot both please the world 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
world in order to convince yourself that your inferiority feelings are unjustified. You believe, deep in your 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
it will alleviate your feelings of guilt and inferiority. And the more you clamor for such approval 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
in turn, causes acute feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, of regret and guilt. For the child does 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
additional despair and guilt, increasing the feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. There is also another reaction. The 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
doubt in yourself. The feelings of inadequacy and inferiority are thus fed anew. Outer will can be 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
is responsible for the deepest roots of your inferiority feelings. You do not trust yourself with this 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
the most basic factor in your feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. The destructive defense mechanism, trying to 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
again, but it increases his inner insecurity and inferiority. He originally deduced that if he had been 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
by unraveling this entire process can the painful inferiority feeling disappear. It is the feeling of being 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
laziness, but because failure to fulfill implies your inferiority. Fear of frustration of pleasure is not so 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
cannot live without it, but because it implies inferiority. Once you see and experience that this is 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
elevate yourself, to pull yourself out of the inferiority which engulfs you. In short, when you are 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
more so because unfulfillment means proof of your inferiority. Once you have reached the strength, courage, humility 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
exactly opposes your deep-rooted feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. You correct your undesirable reality with fantasy. Obviously 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
pride is always a compensation for feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. That the effects of your pride 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
need to be angry. In pride, due to inferiority, you feel humiliated when you are hurt because 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
they will never completely grow out of their inferiority feelings. But by recognizing this, they will learn 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
of self-respect that causes feelings of insecurity and inferiority. Consequently you make your damaged self-respect depend upon 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
the underestimation of the self and the consequent inferiority feelings. This may sound almost paradoxical. Superficially viewed 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
is often wrongly associated with helplessness, passivity, and inferiority, while the masculine principle or masculinity is often 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
He must hide his insecurity and sense of inferiority from the world and himself, which increases repression 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
fear, insecurity, guilt, weakness, doubt, negativity, inadequacy, and inferiority. To the degree these feelings are present, self-esteem 174 SELF-ESTEEM
rejected or criticized, as well as feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. Perhaps you may perceive here or 174 SELF-ESTEEM
did not deal with his own feelings of inferiority and weakness, and wished to pretend that he 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
to face his own feelings of weakness and inferiority and who therefore needs to feel superior to 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
will now turn into benign circles. Instead of inferiority feelings closing the heart, creating resentment, hate, and 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
large degree a response to the stamp of inferiority that was placed on them by the Jews 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
 
 Infiltrate..................4
go through the pain. Let the divine consciousness infiltrate your entire being, my friends. The way I 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
it and make room for spiritual consciousness to infiltrate it. Everyone on the path who has worked 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
seedplan? It is truly allowing Divine Substance to infiltrate all that is. And that substance is never 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
importance of God's plan: allowing the spirit to infiltrate the void -- and ultimately, matter -- thus 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA

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