| Overshadow..................3 | |
| be so immature and truly selfish as to overshadow the good and healthy motives, but also because | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| not to know the words you speak, to overshadow them with other words, it is necessary to | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| part of yourself, that is often allowed to overshadow the developed part, you do not want to | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Overshadowed................3 | |
| situation, or in the other person involved, is overshadowed. If those aspects were allowed to stand in | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| mental insecurity, with all its byproducts, can be overshadowed by all sorts of pursuits. But although these | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to a lesser degree. Today they may be overshadowed by more realistic and mature awareness; they may | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Oversimplification..........8 | |
| of self-will and pride. It may sound like oversimplification, but this viewpoint may bring the beginning of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by negative motivations. Hence, it would lead to oversimplification to stick to the terms higher self, lower | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is something extremely personal. There is so much oversimplification in your world. The real benefit of the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| not always that. It would be a hasty oversimplification to answer this question with an either/or explanation | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| would be limited, and it would be an oversimplification. QUESTION: After a person has become greatly aware | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to the first question, it would be an oversimplification, and also incorrect to say that this would | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| side may be predominant. One must beware of oversimplification. The fact that a relationship changes for the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| is difficult to shed, it would be an oversimplification, a lack of depth-understanding, to simply explain this | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| Oversimplified..............9 | |
| my words are limited and may often appear oversimplified. I retire again, my dearest ones, with blessings | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Discussing such a topic must, of necessity, be oversimplified. When it comes to the dynamics of the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| and really is, simple, but it is not oversimplified. In those areas of your life where things | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| that people begin to think of them in oversimplified terms of geographical areas, located somewhere in outer | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| reactions, concepts and ideas, hopes and fears. Collective, oversimplified labels are supposed to express what is really | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| and many alternatives, but -- speaking in an oversimplified way for the sake of clarity -- those | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| can give you here has to be somewhat oversimplified, but is nevertheless valid. Use it as a | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| development. These things have been said, sometimes in oversimplified terms, by various religions. But do not forget | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| spiritual facts in human terms. They may sound oversimplified and therefore misleading. Of course in our reality | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Oversimplify................8 | |
| imagine, since you tend so very much to oversimplify and generalize. Now I will retire into my | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you off from the divine stream. You may oversimplify this by saying: Things are depressing; I experience | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| and affect the personality predominantly. One can never oversimplify. Sometimes it is complicated because of the possibility | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| symptom out of many others. Please, do not oversimplify by believing that everyone who is a good | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you off from the divine stream. You may oversimplify this by saying, Things are depressing. I experience | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| cannot give you any preconceived formulas. This would oversimplify matters. To really understand and interpret dreams is | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| passive principles, you see the following -- I oversimplify here for the purpose of illustration: The active | 228 BALANCE |
| basic stages, even if we have to somewhat oversimplify. In reality the stages often overlap and do | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Overt.......................36 | |
| private attitudes, spanning the whole scale, up to overt social rebellion, through affiliation with minority parties, anarchist | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| by looking at your outer actions only. No overt deeds can be found to prove the act | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| who concentrate on the teachings of truth without overt power, in whatever form it may appear at | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| or she reaches out to the other sex. Overt perversion is avoided not by the inhibiting fear | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Usually, there are stages between these extremes, either overt or unconscious, so that the personality battles blindly | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| legitimate need and self-expression, hidden one-sidedness often creates overt one-sidedness in the opposite extreme. This form of | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| such a desire and a more or less overt or subtle way of covering up your desire | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the dualistic plane to guarantee your existence. The overt fight is not a bit more opposed to | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| Wherever such negativity exists - - hidden or overt -- one does not trust in the ultimate | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| a very subtle way and may not be overt at all, but the emotions are all cramped | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| evoke great censure and disapproval and possibly even overt rejection. I invite all of you to vigorously | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| of functioning still exists, though in a less overt way. But when they are not balanced, each | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and even then it is hardly ever an overt manifestation -- will experience one as positive and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of integrity. The violation is not necessarily in overt action; it may lie in emotional attitudes, such | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| that there are fewer hidden negative attitudes than overt healthy attitudes. But by virtue of being unconscious | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| The first steam evaporates and nothing remains. Either overt friction and dissension or stagnation and boredom will | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| ramifications. What underlying misconceptions are responsible for the overt self-destruction, the hate, the spite, the malice, the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| just as far removed from it as is overt self-denial. You know perfectly well in your mind | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| destructive. Even if it does not manifest in overt acts, your so-called unconscious guilt leads you into | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| There is also a vast difference between an overt action of destruction and the mental and emotional | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| you suffer from? Do you suffer from an overt condition, such as unfulfillment with a mate, or | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| even if it does not appear as an overt act, has the dire consequences of hurting and | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| which may, in fact, be more selfish than overt selfishness. It may be part of your mask | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| in life may be, the opposite of the overt manifestation must also exist in you. You may | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| you may not be aware of even your overt personality aspect. But little by little, as you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| yourself, you will become aware first of the overt, then the covert side. When your personality is | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Remember that this can occur in either the overt or covert way and that you can rule | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| that all of you look at both the overt and covert manifestations of this struggle in you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Love is needed, perhaps not always in an overt act, but certainly always in feelings. A great | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| terms. This tendency can be quite obvious and overt, but it can also be quite subtle and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| can also manifest in resentment, blame, hostility, and overt hatred, with many shades in-between. Love is certainly | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| very subtle expressions and not necessarily manifest in overt outer leadership or statesmanship. You can be a | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| becomes gradually more acute. If you commit an overt act -- you kill someone -- the consequences | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| effect even when the cause is not an overt act but a hidden thought previously ignored. In | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| state of consciousness even the most obvious and overt act appears isolated without connections or consequences, without | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| have every bit as much impact as your overt actions. Your soul substance registers the hidden motives | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Overtly.....................15 | |
| become a strict law-upholder -- not necessarily always overtly, but perhaps in more subtle ways. The law | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| difficult time resolving this problem than those who overtly and obviously demonstrate that they are, even on | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| indulge in self-pity, resentment, complaining, and accusing -- overtly or covertly -- in your emotional reactions and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| can guiltlessly express their destructive impulses for an overtly destructive cause, such as crime in any form | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| answer to such questions is really simple. The overtly destructive attitudes are never the real evil. If | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| do what you are doing -- either quite overtly and deliberately, or in a more subtle and | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| even in those of you who are not overtly lazy, or who are not aware of other | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| trust in God -- and express this trust overtly in God's world, then you will know the | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| otherwise laudable desire hide? Or is the desire overtly weak and even absent? Can you feel a | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| total personality, or real self, does not manifest overtly. As I have often mentioned, that personality consists | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| of power -- even if it is not overtly expressed against anyone -- becomes so dangerous that | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| course, an overgrown ego makes its claims constantly, overtly or covertly. But when it comes to your | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| mutual distrust and man's physical domination was very overtly acted out in these early periods of humanity | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| applies just as much to those who are overtly in agreement with their parents about almost all | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| to further self-responsibility in every possible way -- overtly and subtly, on the inner and outer levels | 254 SURRENDER |