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your lower self interferes with its pride and laziness, so you often assume guilt that is not 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
reach this wonderful goal, for whatever reasons -- laziness, love of comfort, vanity, or shame -- all 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
is also a kind of pride, coupled with laziness. You want to be there without getting there 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
with each person, but also of ignorance and laziness. It hates to change and conquer itself; it 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
self, with everything that it entails, disregarding the laziness, the comfort, and the way of least resistance 22 SALVATION
or are now only selfishness, jealousy, envy, resentment, laziness, or whatever else, makes no difference in principle 22 SALVATION
So the wrong kind of shame means pride, laziness, injustice, and escape from your present reality. This 31 SHAME
words, where does it come from, apart from laziness, if for instance there is no pronounced talent 32 DECISION-MAKING
the hard work of overcoming a very deep-rooted laziness, which means constant fight, constant trying. The gain 32 DECISION-MAKING
and facing the self gives up because of laziness, pride, or for whatever reasons that follow the 47 THE WALL WITHIN
are not your own? One possibility is, simply, laziness and inertia. Anything that does not touch you 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
follow the sense behind it. This implies a laziness of thinking, and a wishful thinking that with 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is purely constructive -- not inertia, inactivity or laziness - - can only be an advantage. True 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
God's grace to make up for your human laziness and greed, you must be disappointed, whether or 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
lead you into the opposite wrong extreme of laziness, without the desire to change and grow. Soon 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of responsibility is not so great because of laziness, but because failure to fulfill implies your inferiority 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
96. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AND ADDITIONAL COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION Greetings, my dearest friends 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
and guilty about what you would commonly call laziness. It, too, is a symptom, one of the 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
effects of self-alienation. It is generally assumed that laziness is simply a fault. This is a very 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
fault. This is a very superficial evaluation, however. Laziness is not a fault to be commanded away 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
relaxation, but this has nothing to do with laziness or apathy. You will enter the full flow 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
a superimposition. It is your fight against the laziness you disapprove of. You do not know how 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
remedy is precarious. Compulsive overactivity as well as laziness and apathy stem from an identical root. You 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
of life. Where there is indifference, there is laziness of the heart that cannot feel and understand 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
everything but give nothing. Ascertain the selfishness and laziness in this voice once you bring it out 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
quite conscious, others are unformulated, vague, out of laziness and pride. Such inner nonparticipation is a passive 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
case the very same attitudes may prevail: blindness, laziness of thinking and feeling, selfishness, egocentricity, cruelty, vindictiveness 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
against recognizing resistance. One is dullness of mind, laziness of thinking and feeling. Going through life blindly 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
of a society. Due to people's inclination to laziness, they blindly follow what is established, and retain 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
in various ways: lack of energy and desire, laziness, being blocked, not understanding, projecting anger on those 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
a healthy ego. This may be due to laziness since ego development is so difficult, and they 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
a meaningful life are not acting from mere laziness or fear. It is always a violation of 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
may be tainted with cowardice and opportunism. The laziness of not thinking through an issue is never 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
not thinking through an issue is never just laziness per se. It is always tainted by cowardice 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
as life's traumas do. Favorable events may encourage laziness, stagnation, and illusion. What you make of anything 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
birthright. The price is some effort of overcoming laziness, resistance, and false safety devices. It also includes 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
with oneself connotes an inner resistance. The outer laziness and distorted acceptance of things connotes a fierce 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
anxiety on the one hand, and in inertia, laziness, and neglect of active growth on the other 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
people. It expresses itself in your awareness as laziness, inertia, apathy, even as not wanting to do 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
receptivity and letting go, meaning denial of self-responsibility, laziness, following the line of least resistance. Trying to 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
evil, such as, for example love, perseverance, sloth, laziness, impatience, kindness, stubbornness, or malice. They all need 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS Greetings, my dearest friends here. There is a 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
I was asked to discuss the problem of laziness. There is an intimate connection between the problem 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
is an intimate connection between the problem of laziness and feelings that have not been fully experienced 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
not been fully experienced. Do not look at laziness as an attitude to be given up at 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
This is not a moralistic issue at all. Laziness is a manifestation of apathy, stagnation and paralysis 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
you find yourself in the position of feeling laziness, that state where movement is possible only when 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
realizing their talents, their needs, their selves. So-called laziness may be one manifestation of this paralysis. A 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
action patterns. The paralysis that is often deemed laziness, and about which you moralize as if it 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
when they first came to you so painfully. Laziness is a protection against the movement of the 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
on avoiding without blocking your very life. Thus laziness is simultaneously an effect as well as a 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
come to feel the fear that lies in laziness and in all types of stagnation. This fear 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
loosen up some of the stagnant matter. The laziness that makes you avoid, postpone, and procrastinate will 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
focusing, of being all there, as it were. Laziness, tiredness, and passivity are, too, tricks of the 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
or skills, on whatever level, always means overcoming laziness. It means self-discipline: the more desirable a new 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
ego is blindly involved in its negativity, including laziness, pride, selfwill, fear, wish to cheat life, and 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
little ego, following the dictates of vanity, greed, laziness, and dishonesty, so can you create by letting 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
stubborn opinions of your little mind, in the laziness that forces you to succumb to the old 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
defenses, of false safety, of illusions, of the laziness and the lure of the line of least 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
rhyme or reason, usually out of wishful thinking, laziness and ignorance. Therefore, in today's intellectual climate, faith 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
others, or life in general. This comes from laziness. The person who does not doubt in the 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
comes forth when using magic to coddle your laziness and self- indulgence. The same is true of 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
of inner morality. Blind obedience to rules enhances laziness of thinking, the easy way of not taking 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
can afford to be lazy, even if the laziness is not necessarily physical. It can be laziness 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
laziness is not necessarily physical. It can be laziness of mind, laziness of spirit, laziness of courage 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
necessarily physical. It can be laziness of mind, laziness of spirit, laziness of courage, laziness of heart 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
can be laziness of mind, laziness of spirit, laziness of courage, laziness of heart. Leaders create a 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
of mind, laziness of spirit, laziness of courage, laziness of heart. Leaders create a following and, in 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
person. Inertia refrains from action for the good. Laziness, nonmovement, passivity -- in a negative sense -- 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
people refuse to let go of, by personal laziness and by the tragic error that the old 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
 
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they do not want it. They are too lazy, or they are not fulfilling the requirements for 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
and an open, unbiased mind, not pampering the lazy self that likes to wallow in the swamp 21 THE FALL
The other is that the lower self is lazy and never wants to work. Yet it requires 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
nurse them, justify their existence, or, worse, become lazy and not do anything about them. This would 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
good. There are people who tend to be lazy; they lack ambition and are satisfied with a 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
certain state is karmic would only make you lazy instead of doing the necessary work, no matter 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
will, while this feeling lasts, have unselfish impulses. Lazy people will get out of their inertia. The 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
Without eros, you are merely aware of the lazy outer layers. Do not avoid eros when it 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
eliminate. You are too impatient and also too lazy to really tackle what lies behind the wall 47 THE WALL WITHIN
the difficulty of earth life; they would be lazy. They might prefer to develop in a slower 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
that God causes suffering is shaped by a lazy fatalism and leads to the logical conclusion that 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
law has been substituted. Because people are too lazy to think and too cowardly to make their 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
center of your being, you will not be lazy. You will not feel apathetic. You will not 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
because your failure would affect me. The self-indulgent, lazy self-pity of the weak makes stringent demands on 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
of being hurt, you defend yourself by becoming lazy and indifferent towards everything that is life-producing. Therefore 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
not the answer. The answer is not a lazy acceptance of evil. But neither is the answer 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
these are lacking when you put up a lazy resistance against assuming responsibility in your life, or 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
those who are too timid and blind and lazy will be swept along by the truthfulness, the 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
a reverse situation exists. The little ego is lazy, unwilling to assume the necessary responsibility or accountability 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
adopt the right one. How often are humans lazy and inattentive to their innermost expressions when governed 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
a mate because she is too fearful and lazy to assume the consequences for her own actions 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
So, my friends, when you find yourself stagnating, lazy, passive, or inert, and when you desire to 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
in those of you who are not overtly lazy, or who are not aware of other symptoms 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
transcended but avoided. The ego must change its lazy, resistant attitudes in order to transcend itself to 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
situation to another. Sometimes you are just too lazy and too resistant by habit to deal with 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
the ultimate reality. When you tend toward the lazy kind of faith, doubt must awaken you into 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
may be flattened out because the mind becomes lazy, preferring handed-down rules and generalizations that may or 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
other hand, where you before tended to be lazy and self-indulgent and looked for the line of 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
a nation. The follower can afford to be lazy, even if the laziness is not necessarily physical 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
he refuses to assume because he is too lazy, too fearful, too selfish, too self-indulgent, he commits 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
right into the rationalizations of those who are lazy and cheat, making their excuses valid by giving 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
drive with the actual parasitic nature of the lazy ones. In other words, in this system, since 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
the other end of the scale, that the lazy, demanding personality wants to be taken care of 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
wants to create the distortion. Is it the lazy part that resents the authority without wanting to 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
of a human tendency to be glib and lazy and to label, so as to avoid feeling 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE

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