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| 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 |