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completely and wholly to God. Thus do you project your own limitations on the Highest. Do not 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY
to generalize, they disregard all other alternatives and project their conclusions onto all other situations. A child's 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
authority. Therefore it is not surprising that children project their subjective experiences with authority on their imaginings 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
expectations you have of this god you also project onto human beings, either to a specific person 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
the soul which magnetically attracts prejudice. Therefore you project on others what you actually feel in a 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
you dislike it in yourself, the more you project the dislike on others. The more it is 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
One of the most common devices is to project the blame for failure into the outer world 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
subtle; you may unconsciously sabotage yourself and then project your failure on others. Such failure actually results 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
must do the right thing, which you then project on the world. You resent this demand and 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
coping with life's hardships. In pity, you merely project your own weakness onto another, seeing in that 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
an individual or an institution. You may simply project your own inherent powers onto life and fate 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
self. Yet it is estrangement from yourself to project faculties, authority, dependency and strength upon isolated fragments 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
life and his inadequacy to cope with it, project onto this God. He senses the power of 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
avoid parts of yourself, you cannot help but project outwardly onto others and into the outside life 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
to blind oneself to the true issue, to project and displace, often blurs one's memory of past 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
this recognition dawns upon you, you will not project into the future a perfection of yourself and 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
at and which I try to ignore and project in so many ways. This means acknowledging your 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
really fears only one's own unknown depths. People project this real fear onto any number of other 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
to deny, to embellish, to justify and to project onto others what you cannot accept in yourself 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of inner truth and reality. One begins to project the causes of the alienation onto the outside 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
that you disillusion yourself concerning the image you project into the world and of whose genuineness you 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
arise to the exact degree that you still project on others your own problems in relating and 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
least as much guilt as one tries to project. The recipients of this blame and guilt may 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
life. It is up to you not to project your experiences outwardly, on others, which is always 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
most dangerous temptation. Or, for that matter, to project them into yourself in a self-devastating way, which 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
the issue just as much as when you project it onto others. The attitude I am so 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
yourself and your resistance to change. When you project all your old negative experiences onto others, it 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
make something of it, if you do not project untruthful interpretations into the cause of the undesirable 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
refute it and rebel against it, repress and project it onto outer circumstances, you cannot want pleasure 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
point where you no longer need to deny, project, and defend against this evil part, when you 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
to look, feel, and experience, to no longer project what is in you. When you can let 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
within yourself to find where and how you project on another what must primarily come from within 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
it, assume responsibility for it, and no longer project it onto others while distorting reality in order 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
of course quite self-explanatory. You neither displace nor project what you do not wish to experience, but 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
into your darkness. But as long as you project your darkness outward, in order not to face 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
a judgment, too self-annihilating. And the more you project it outward, the more you lose your grip 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
you are not aware of this searching and project it on substitute fulfillments that you expect to 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
humanitarian contribution, a work of art, a scientific project, or the smallest, most insignificant daily chore makes 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
deep lack of faith in yourself, you always project it outward in a cynical and negative attitude 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
attitude by using religious doctrines. Or you may project self-indulgence and guilt in a different way by 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
in your everyday life, and even deny or project these negative attitudes on others. If you do 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
your mask self is not genuine and you project that lack of genuineness on the world outside 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
when you no longer excuse, hide, deny, rationalize, project, and hate others in order not to feel 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
selfishly and cruelly. In hiding this tendency you project it outward, so that you assume all rules 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
you hate yourself? Where and how do you project this self-hate onto others and thereby increase the 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
rejecting, unloving, ungenerous, over-cautions. The suspicion which you project from your own unmoving, withholding, ungiving attitude makes 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
more than one way. For example, you either project your mask self to the world, while you 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
are not free and if you continue to project a false self into the world? Do not 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
 
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the fact that life can be longer than projected in one of the plans is not always 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
and resenting it. This resentment is, of course, projected onto the other person involved, although often indirectly 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
always hides an unrecognized anger at the self projected on the outside world. Hence, the change brought 62 MAN AND WOMAN
outside is the offending parent, or both parents, projected onto other human beings. They have only to 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
is doing the recreation. They are not only projected qualities, seen while they are not really there 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
true that a specific psychic activity that is projected into the outside world is highly individual and 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
at yourself. This fury and wrath is often projected on others because it is too unbearable to 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
self-effacement as supreme virtue, it has to be projected onto others. Such emotions of contempt and resentment 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
and self- contempt which, again, have to be projected onto others, in order to remain unaware of 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
they have to be externalized and are then projected on the other person. This, in turn, creates 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
self- alienation. And this self-deprecation is then often projected on others. Your idealized self-image is created not 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
sense of failure, and self-contempt. This is often projected onto others. As long as the need for 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
explained away by apparently real provocations, and successfully projected onto others. Discovering all these mechanisms is learning 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
This general fear of life may further be projected on the fear of death, since they are 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
and the self is, for the longest time, projected outwardly, so that the struggle seems to be 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
level this will surface in any number of projected fears, which have nothing to do with what 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
constrictions when the blame for the lack is projected onto outside circumstances or other people. This creates 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
awareness and the state before it, when you projected your unhappiness outside, blaming the world, blaming others 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
Now, it is indeed difficult to accept the projected acted-out negativity of others which always involves the 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
to have increased, however, for what you heretofore projected onto others you now see directed against yourself 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
In that way you spread good. Your unacknowledged, projected destructiveness immediately affects its counterpart in others. Mutual 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
itself is a frequent weapon for punishing parents, projected parents, and life. It says, in effect: You 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
of yourself, the more this fear must be projected into outer life, onto other people and outer 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
spiritual life from inside; it had to be projected outside. This inability to assume responsibility for the 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
real nature of this fear is denied and projected onto other persons, outer events begin to manifest 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
suspicions and doubts you harbor about others. This projected self-doubt must not be confused with true intuition 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
consciousness that existed in previous ages was always projected outward, as you well know. Then, as a 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
trustingly, to release your bounty into such a projected universe. No wonder you want to stay in 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
confusion and frustration. These, in turn, are often projected onto others whom you blame for causing your 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
self-righteous position that, at the same time, creates projected judgments of others. Please, my friends, remember these 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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