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| If I give first, without being sure, my pride might get hurt, I might be injured, the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| important than the I with its vanity and pride. Then the feeling of unfulfillment, of vague yearning | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of your ego, your oversensitivity, your vanity, your pride, and how they play their part. Whoever has | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| soul that you have to give up your pride, the importance of your ego, but you do | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| genuine way without being afraid that their little pride might be hurt or that they may encounter | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| different from false dignity, which is based on pride and vanity. Such wrong currents in the soul | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| to forget itself and not take its vanity, pride, and personal advantages so seriously. Such an emotional | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| what this choice implies. Selfishness, anxiety, oversensitivity and pride have won out. When as a consequence the | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| and shortcomings, are nothing but a form of pride and arrogance. You want to be better than | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| recognition of his lack of humility, of his pride and arrogance in being so terribly upset about | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| into himself and find what other characteristics his pride and arrogance have given rise to. Thus he | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| the ego with its self-pity, vanity, cowardice and pride -- in short, everything that nurtures the ego | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| certain level of success is to succumb to pride instead of mastering it. Complete humility is a | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| guilt, but your lower self interferes with its pride and laziness, so you often assume guilt that | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| connected to God's spirit world. Ego, power, vanity, pride, craving for admiration can be just as great | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| oneself, and self-analysis. The lower self, in its pride, wants to be perfect without doing the necessary | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| valley. And this is also a kind of pride, coupled with laziness. You want to be there | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| whether this bondage concerns a fanatic patriotism, family pride, a profession, or whatever else it may be | 18 FREE WILL |
| accept yourself without fear, without shame, and without pride. Where you still discover these trends, examine what | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| effort to overcome a little bit of your pride. By doing so, you will have attained some | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| first where your own ego is involved, your pride perhaps or your self-will; right then and there | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| indirectly all your various individual shortcomings, are self-will, pride, and fear. This is very important, my friends | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| self-will will not be gratified, or that your pride may be hurt. If you had no pride | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| pride may be hurt. If you had no pride, you would not have to fear that it | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| and whether it is connected with self-will and pride and to what extent. So begin to observe | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| is most difficult for you: giving up your pride, your fear, your self-will, your egotism, or a | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| real love must be entirely free of ego, pride, vanity, and self-will. That is the answer. So | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| be in love, be in God! 30. SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR Greetings in the Name of the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| to perfection which apply to everyone alike: self-will, pride, and fear. Since the Fall these three attributes | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| light is, but also to realize that self-will, pride, and fear exist in you and to find | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| my friends, you might ask: How do self-will, pride, and fear connect? Why is one unthinkable without | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| of purification and understanding the role of self-will, pride, and fear is certainly essential on this path | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| being alive who is entirely free of self-will, pride, and fear. Thus my words apply to everyone | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| your own chains. Now let us turn to pride. What does pride mean? It means that your | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| Now let us turn to pride. What does pride mean? It means that your ego is more | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| than your own, you still have too much pride. And who does not feel that way, my | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| to make yourself so important, for your little pride and ego do not matter half as much | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| than your brother. The moment your vanity and pride assume such importance, you are again in constant | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| fear, being afraid that the gratification of your pride will not be granted to you by the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| to show you the connection between self-will and pride. That is too easy. That you can do | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the connection between self-will and fear, or between pride and fear, is concerned, I have shown it | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| you are caught within the snare of self-will, pride, and fear, you cannot ever be happy. It | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| might call God-eclipsing. Last time I explained that pride, self-will, and fear underlie all faults and are | 31 SHAME |
| the wrong kind of shame comes from your pride and furthers your pride even more. This may | 31 SHAME |
| shame comes from your pride and furthers your pride even more. This may sound paradoxical at first | 31 SHAME |
| facing everything about yourself -- and that is pride. Let me stress once again: Intellectually you know | 31 SHAME |
| be. So the wrong kind of shame means pride, laziness, injustice, and escape from your present reality | 31 SHAME |
| attitude brings further hazards, however. Because of your pride and your need for respect and love from | 31 SHAME |
| on the path. Then you rid yourself of pride and falsity long before you are perfect in | 31 SHAME |
| you despair so easily, there is too much pride in you, and then the healing, curative action | 31 SHAME |
| of shame and self-acceptance, which brings humility, overcomes pride, and shows you how to live in your | 31 SHAME |
| faults, it might make you even prouder, and pride is more harmful than many other faults. Apart | 31 SHAME |
| this point of view, you will lose the pride you take in it. As long as the | 31 SHAME |
| you take in it. As long as the pride persists, however, you cannot possibly overcome the fault | 31 SHAME |
| how every one of them is connected with pride, self-will, and fear. I will show you how | 31 SHAME |
| In all probability there is a measure of pride in you which you cover up with the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| and work is most necessary. Then recognize the pride in combination with the self-will. Treat it similarly | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| similarly. If you can conquer both self-will and pride in this particular connection, your fear will be | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| soon as you have given up self-will and pride, your fear will vanish, and with it your | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the apparently pleasant ones. However, some people, through pride and defiance, choose an unfavorable one. Rejection is | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| give up and after you have conquered your pride and self-will. Thank you. QUESTION: In the last | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| dangerous one. Dangerous because there is so much pride contained in it and also because it is | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| with the bad and impure ones -- spiritual pride and separateness from one's fellow-creatures. Since you will | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| and love of God is awakening before your pride and self-will have left you. The two opposite | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| layer exists the ego with all its vanity, pride, fear, and ambition. This ego layer believes that | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| you are not able to overcome your ego, pride, fear, and the cowardice that allows you to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| make the effort to overcome such vanity and pride. All faults bar the way to divine grace | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| fault opens a door to grace. It is pride that makes you shy. I cannot stress it | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| now you know that all faults come from pride, self-will, and fear. It is essential that you | 36 PRAYER |
| to feel ashamed? Isn't that a sign of pride? In prayer you learn to humble yourself; it | 36 PRAYER |
| your inner and often unconscious attitudes rooted in pride, self-will, fear, and error. They equip you to | 36 PRAYER |
| with every other creature in existence. The self-will, pride, and fear inherent in every human being will | 36 PRAYER |
| in every hour of test and difficulty about pride, self-will, and fear. Isn't the seeker who kicks | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| kicks and struggles against unhappiness acting out of pride? Doesn't the personality often react in emotional outbursts | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| Does my struggle mean that I reject through pride and self-will the lesson life has to teach | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| Dignity is a divine aspect. Its distortion is pride. How often do we notice human beings proud | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| do we notice human beings proud of their pride mistaking pride for dignity, which has no life | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| notice human beings proud of their pride mistaking pride for dignity, which has no life apart from | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| simultaneously have dignity. In the measure that self-will, pride, vanity, and egotism are present in the soul | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| misunderstood concept of dignity is nothing less than pride -- the exact opposite of dignity. Spiritually unawakened | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| feelings that have probably been influenced by hurt pride. Show your own good sides in sincerity; show | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| and arduous search, the common denominator. It is pride. Your self-will says: I do not want the | 38 IMAGES |
| pray for guidance, being ready to overcome your pride so you can be open with another person | 38 IMAGES |
| will be able to see where your self-will, pride, and ego claim gratification that your higher self | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| to you. Perhaps it is giving up your pride, going through your apparent shame. When you approach | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| course, can exist only because of self-will and pride -- the personality builds defenses. People think that | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| development, but out of ignorance. From self-will and pride. Everything that the Fall has brought about. You | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| persistently, it is for two reasons. One is pride: the one you have chosen as your loved | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| tolerance, but it is done really out of pride. The second reason is that deep down in | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the truth, you could not go on loving. Pride, and your present inability to truly love, make | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| probably because of the two reasons already stated: pride, and your inability to love the other as | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| for your ego, for your vanity, for your pride because of your still existing inability to love | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| What does the block mean? It often indicates pride. Yes, my friends, this might seem strange to | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the impression of humiliating yourself, and that is pride. For the truly humble person does not fear | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| It is nothing else but a form of pride. For he who is so afraid of how | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| All inferiority complexes have the common denominator of pride and self-will. Self-will: because you crave the gratification | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| Self-will: because you crave the gratification of your pride so much that you either act more secure | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| paralyzes you and makes you shy. And where pride and self-will exist, fear too must exist. If | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| your outward actions pretend. You fear that your pride and self-will would not be gratified. No inferiority | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| proud, I do not want to have this pride, therefore I hide it from myself. Your concern | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| to practice humility and love leaving out your pride and ego and proving that what you mean | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| deal of experience, mostly out of fear and pride. This type fears that emotion might lead to | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| emotion-type is equally onesided. Predominantly emotional people often pride themselves that only they are capable of truly | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| built such a tight wall of fear and pride around their souls that they avoid this part | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| will be purified also by putting away your pride and revealing yourself as you really are. Your | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| will be purified also by putting away your pride and revealing yourself as you really are. In | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| fight to overcome the temptation of sluggishness and pride! For it also requires a certain humility to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| be the predominant factors in each case. And pride also plays a role, in both instances, only | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| misapplied goodwill. But it consists also of cowardice, pride, self-will, and impatience. Your impatience mounts because in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| facing the self gives up because of laziness, pride, or for whatever reasons that follow the line | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the courage to shoulder your responsibility without the pride of destructive wrong guilt feelings that make you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| lack of self-recognition and for self-deception out of pride and fear. There was in him an impatience | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| already perfect -- an impatience connected with spiritual pride. He used his desire for good to suppress | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| that he was self-righteous? ANSWER: Yes, that is pride. There was pride in this respect, but also | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| self-righteous? ANSWER: Yes, that is pride. There was pride in this respect, but also in other respects | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| people's shortcomings, but your ignorance, your fear, your pride, your egotism that directly or indirectly caused that | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| fear can only arise out of self-will and pride. It may sound like oversimplification, but this viewpoint | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| person believes that this would be self-will and pride and that one has to wait for God's | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you how much you are involved in your pride and ego and therefore not half as objective | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the final answer, whether it is the word pride or compulsion or whatever it may be. It | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| special. It is not sufficient to call it pride. You will have to go further than that | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| that. Why do you feel a need for pride? Because of the wrong conclusion of the image | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| is what they amount to. Thus, you use pride as a defensive measure, as a means to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| an end. This is why the realization that pride exists in you never really helps to eliminate | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| You may not have been aware of your pride before, but after some efforts on this path | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| perhaps with a shock, that you, too, possess pride. But no matter how often you then tell | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| how often you then tell yourself, This is pride, I must not be proud, it does not | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| understand fully that you unconsciously believe that your pride serves to gain something for you or to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| assumption, you can then get rid of the pride, the vanity, the self-importance: you comprehend that there | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| find, further, why you need the dependency and pride, or rather, why you think you need it | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| in becoming bigger -- and not out of pride for the sake of pride, but out of | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| not out of pride for the sake of pride, but out of the mistaken idea that being | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| if you act out of a level of pride, the other person will respond automatically in kind | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| motives too. Unhealthy motives, such as self- importance, pride, vanity, or the will to rule can exist | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| something. Not being able to ask because of pride is nothing but weakness. But to find out | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| emotions are, no matter how much you may pride yourself on your objectivity in other and outer | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and unconscious -- is unfair; it amounts to pride, for you claim an extra special position for | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which are always a manifestation of self-concern and pride. You withdraw your real self in fear of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| all faults stem from three basic ones: self-will, pride, and fear. No matter which fault you take | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| dignity will increase to the extent that your pride of separateness decreases. The fullness and richness of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| motive is mere embarrassment and unwillingness to overcome pride, we are not allowed to heed it. QUESTION | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| for you -- perhaps by giving up your pride, by going through your apparent shame. When you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is no longer desirable. This is not merely pride, but it is based on the misconception that | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| your decision is right, feeling neither guilt nor pride nor doubt. You will spontaneously be the best | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| In your soul-sickness and error, productive of fear, pride, arrogance, ignorance, darkness, confusion, you are not only | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Of course, this is also a question of pride, of the feeling of being exposed to others | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| from a personal fault or weakness, be it pride, vanity, self-will, rebellion, insecurity, frustration, or whatever. Even | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the compulsive attitude that denies present imperfection, the pride and lack of humility that prevents you from | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| that nothing makes a person as vulnerable as pride; nothing causes so much fear. In most cases | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| moral standards impossible to live up to and pride in being invulnerable, aloof, and superior. The co-existence | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| that what you regarded as commendable is really pride and pretense, you will have gained a most | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| will have a somewhat harder time discovering the pride that prevails in all these attitudes. The pride | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| pride that prevails in all these attitudes. The pride in the other types is quite on the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| other types may even be proud of their pride; they may be proud of their aggressiveness and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| from having what less good people attain. The pride of self-sacrificing martyrdom makes it difficult to discover | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| do in the other attitudes linked to pseudo-solutions. Pride, hypocrisy, and pretense are present in all of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| type will have a harder time finding the pride, while the aggressive type will have a harder | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| love, friendship, or help acknowledged as important. The pride in this image is very obvious, but the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| negative view receives plenty of confirmation, and takes pride in being objective and the opposite of being | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| love and protection, the seekers for power take pride in never failing in anything. In certain combinations | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| dictates are unrealistic and unrealizable. They, too, include pride and hypocrisy: pride, because this detachment seems so | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and unrealizable. They, too, include pride and hypocrisy: pride, because this detachment seems so godlike in its | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| no longer need to build false values with pride and pretense. You will no longer rely on | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| healthy power, which is not the power of pride and defiance, neither the power to triumph over | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |