| Persistently................5 | |
| the opposite. If you do close your eyes persistently, it is for two reasons. One is pride | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| way. You often overlook this simple logic, and persistently take the frictions in your life as though | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| You mull them over and over and are persistently influenced by what should already be obsolete. The | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the end of their being. Why do you persistently -- either consciously or vaguely unconsciously -- believe | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the growth of the soul. In such phases, persistently holding on to the energies amounts to needless | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Persisting..................8 | |
| you still find part of your old ways persisting in you. Expect this to happen, and this | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you see what is behind the fear. Nagging, persisting fears are unrealistic fears you do not cope | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| find, acknowledge and accept the existence of the persisting negativity. The more the childish, one-sided egocentricity is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| than closing your eye in wishful thinking and persisting in applying a forcing current because you do | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| but also where you are connected with a persisting negativity. There must be a corresponding character defect | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| unhappiness, and your inner refusal to give up persisting negativity. Only when this is worked through, when | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| conscious and see what price you pay for persisting in the negativity. Yet you do not wish | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| be malicious or ungiving. It is destructive by persisting in its limited view that what is selfish | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Persists....................17 | |
| or female. The basic principle of the masculine persists even when incarnated as a woman. The temporary | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| as your resistance against this way of working persists, no matter what the pretexts and excuses are | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| take in it. As long as the pride persists, however, you cannot possibly overcome the fault. I | 31 SHAME |
| begin arguing with that part in yourself that persists in being childish and unreasonable. As far as | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to terms with them, your knowledge of them persists. You cannot eradicate that. So you seek relief | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the roots of it. Therefore, the gnawing guilt persists. It is as if the psyche says: You | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the desire to be maturely and rightly loved persists in you, submerged by your fight for approval | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in your emotions, then, when a wrong condition persists long and strong enough, eventually also in your | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| exception. As long as the child in you persists in its strong, self-willed current of subtly, emotionally | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you illogically contradict your desire to develop that persists just as strongly, in spite of your fear | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| healthy, but if a craving for something inessential persists, then you have a false need. Although this | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| as their destructive defenses fortify your own. This persists unless you are on a path such as | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the confusions to the fore, unless the personality persists in disregarding them and evading the issues. This | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| life on its own terms. The other side persists in saying, No. I want it my way | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| has completely fused with divine reality. The fear persists even when intellectual understanding has been attained and | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| that is superficially spoken, while the opposite word persists underneath, will only create a short circuit. So | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| because there is a part in me that persists in wanting to doubt and not only to | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Personalities...............35 | |
| aspects of God are what you would call personalities. QUESTION: Is this what is meant with the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| see and which are the products of their personalities. But on earth it is not that way | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| is how individuals build their worlds by their personalities. QUESTION: I'd like to know if that would | 18 FREE WILL |
| everything that was and is part of the personalities involved, the higher as the lower ones. The | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to receive this enlightenment. And others, whose different personalities follow trends of another direction, may receive great | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the other. And even though many of the personalities in the Scriptures were actual persons -- not | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| What their recreation is depends entirely on their personalities, on their personal tastes, talents, and inclinations. There | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of what goes on in so many individual personalities. It cannot be eliminated by collective means alone | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| this, but as many as there are human personalities. What is the sum total of the human | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| comforting love is absent in their own immature personalities. Other parents may be too severe, too strict | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| religion to encourage blind obedience. Both causes produce personalities distorted by helplessness, false goodness, and appeasement; or | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the truth about others -- their lives and personalities in their whole dimension -- will give you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| about their lives, and other aspects of their personalities you have never seen or known, so that | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| a new meaning, enabling you to evaluate their personalities in a different way, with the detachment and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Your parents, or rather certain aspects of their personalities and your response to them, personify the unmended | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| of this experience, the union enables the two personalities to function incomparably better in every other respect | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| cited above. Fear of love may, in other personalities, create an overemphasis, an exaggerated need for purely | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| or less than the sum total of their personalities, what they express and emanate, which, in turn | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the false discipline imposes too much stricture, some personalities break. The strain becomes too much. Other personality | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| take as many forms as there are human personalities. Many people are not even aware of making | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| may easily mislead childish, self-centered, falsely selfish, separating personalities, who may desire to proclaim their destructive selfishness | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| faculties of reason and will, so that their personalities become lopsided. Humankind as a whole is arrested | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| again the energy does not flow smoothly. Some personalities find it expedient to dramatize the weakness and | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| then be used as further road maps. Individual personalities choose their parents and environment on the basis | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| connection, float around in space. These aspects become personalities. Such personalities develop problems because of their apparent | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| around in space. These aspects become personalities. Such personalities develop problems because of their apparent disconnection. The | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| matter becomes more and more refined as more personalities refine their vibratory functions and their power of | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the common lot of all those apparently isolated personalities. The combinations vary, the degree of development varies | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| result of higher development. The more highly developed personalities often have more difficulty in bringing the divergent | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Consciousness and energy manifest separately in entities, in personalities, in living beings divine or evil. The strength | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| can be beneficially experienced only by souls and personalities who are compatible with it. Otherwise, this same | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| to reincarnate in one lifetime simultaneously? Two different personalities in two different bodies, being part of the | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| intolerant where acceptance would be appropriate. For many personalities one or the other of these two attitudes | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| or shameful. When all levels of the two personalities are open to each other, join and finally | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| current is too strong to bear unless your personalities have reached a high degree of inner development | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Personality.................998 | |
| work on that first, so that the whole personality is penetrated by understanding. When you do this | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| it will not be egocentric or violate your personality. I want you to observe that there are | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| during a lifetime. The other part of the personality wants comfort, convenience, and will give up nothing | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| importance to your soul and to your entire personality to really uncover what is hidden within your | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| thing or another, but another part of your personality, which I call the lower self, pulls your | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| the first step toward the unification of your personality has been taken. Do not get depressed. It | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| right now. For the unknown part of the personality has tremendous power, and this power lies in | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| in every human being another part of the personality wants what is evil and false -- yet | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| as tangible consequences. Also, the development of the personality takes incomparably longer and is much more difficult | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| soul finally returns to nothingness, that the individual personality does not survive? Or does personality and individual | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the individual personality does not survive? Or does personality and individual consciousness remain in existence in some | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| is identical with the sense of individuality the personality has. But one has nothing to do with | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and thus the sense of individuality in the personality. One day the ego must be overcome and | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| say. Of course. If there were no individual personality, there could also be no contact with others | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the erroneous concept of complete dissolution of the personality was never formulated or propagated by the Indian | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| this difference. For you think that your whole personality hinges on the ego. I would explain it | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| part of the lower self and the individual personality is the sum total of all that the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| would also have to give up the individual personality. QUESTION: A friend of ours who is a | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| since, as you know, all aspects of the personality do not evolve simultaneously -- then the worst | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| reaction, thought, opinion or tendency, even the smallest personality trait, is a luminous ray which is invisible | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| he will acquire a better understanding about his personality and unconscious emotional currents. After a certain time | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| will further and complete the unfolding of the personality. For example, when a masculine element in a | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| current and tendency will meld and the whole personality will reach a higher degree of integration. Here | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| see human beings, the whole unit of human personality, and how this affects the process of purification | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the one best for his or her particular personality and problems. This must happen and always will | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| in the spirit world see the entire human personality, the complete unit. You all know that you | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| they are not being true to their real personality. As I said before, being true to oneself | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| knowledge of these three parts of the human personality will make a tremendous difference in the results | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| is to penetrate the subconscious layers of the personality with these truths as well, so that all | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| speaking, it may be simply that the true personality is not allowed to evolve, that a mask | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| evolve, that a mask is put over the personality and the inner reaction; or a revolt by | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| by conflicting desires -- one part of the personality wants to go in one direction, and another | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the conscious and will directing part of the personality does not take charge, the inner fight and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| explained that in the active aspect God is personality: active, thinking, planning -- the Creator. In the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| Western philosophy, open to the experience of God's personality aspect that is active, would be blind to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| first time to understand that a very different personality is speaking through this human person. It will | 18 FREE WILL |
| difficult to keep. In whatever aspect of your personality you have not deviated from divine law -- | 18 FREE WILL |
| certainly many difficulties to overcome in your own personality, many faults to become aware of and cast | 18 FREE WILL |
| still advance spiritually in some respects of his personality, though perhaps in quite another compartment of his | 18 FREE WILL |
| the power to penetrate all of the human personality. Wishing or thinking from the spiritual field involves | 18 FREE WILL |
| you have left your shell behind. Your whole personality, your thinking, your feeling, and your opinions if | 18 FREE WILL |
| subtle bodies which live on. And whatever your personality makeup is now, it will be after death | 18 FREE WILL |
| God, at least in one aspect of your personality. The only question that counts is, What is | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| dissolve this fluid substance so that the compact personality becomes a flow, a principle, or a divine | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| are blind to some aspects of your own personality and they stand in the way to your | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| constant contact with the divine world. The outer personality, with its willpower and capability to decide one | 22 SALVATION |
| the possibility for light as Hitler had. His personality was more even, if I might use this | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Fall. And besides, it was never the entire personality of the unified beings that was responsible for | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that was responsible for the Fall, but certain personality trends which lend themselves to the deviation from | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of utmost importance for the purification of your personality and for the sake of a healthy and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |