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| The moment you fight your lower self, you protect yourself completely. This is what you must do | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| own souls, remove the crust with which you protect your hurt, and only then can you be | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and a great inner insecurity, erroneously attempting to protect himself. Consider how often you have had a | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| thought that this was the best way to protect yourself. To the extent you do this yourself | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| not the task of these mission spirits to protect the people destined not to die. This is | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| you still act according to the necessity to protect yourself and not out of enlightened vision and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| from a distance. They will interfere only to protect according to past merits, following exact spiritual laws | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| through the process of self-purification which alone will protect you from committing sins again. As long as | 22 SALVATION |
| so. Unconsciously you are convinced that your images protect you. Let me give you a very primitive | 38 IMAGES |
| convinced that avoiding certain actions and reactions will protect you against the hurts of life. Now how | 38 IMAGES |
| was the occasion? What did I want to protect myself from? How did it work out in | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| and intolerant the law-upholder becomes, in order to protect him- or herself from their own fear and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you through the basic misconception that self-centeredness will protect you from hurt or bring you a reward | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| -- that selfishness will bring me reward, will protect me from hurt. In what way have I | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| want to realize this all-important truth, you can protect yourself from crises and breakdowns. It is never | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| about white lies -- lies in order to protect a higher cause or prevent hurts? ANSWER: My | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| can you examine why you think it will protect you and whether or not this assumption is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by forceful measures avails you nothing. You cannot protect yourself by isolating yourself even more. The only | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| are other responsibilities, such as the responsibility to protect weaker people physically and emotionally. You can recognize | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| resort to, either to get it, or to protect yourself from the horror of not getting it | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| seems to be such a tragedy that they protect themselves by pretending they do not want anything | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| bargain they have made with life. They may protect themselves from disappointments and failures, which in reality | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| yourself guilty, otherwise you would not have to protect yourself by going on the offensive. QUESTION: Yes | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| understand this, you will no longer need to protect yourself from hurt and disappointment when you do | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| either to gain what you want, or to protect yourself against the disappointment and frustration of not | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| as long as they love, appreciate, approve, and protect him or her. All evaluation of others hinges | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| obedience had to be stressed in order to protect society. Superficially this may seem right; in reality | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the wrong motive: If I obey, you will protect me. You will make decisions for me. I | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| in their development, human law will suffice to protect society from their untamed and destructive impulses. The | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you never wants to accept that. Since you protect yourself in this foolish manner, you isolate yourself | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a rigid structure of morality in order to protect yourself from your untamed instincts. You think that | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| believe it will -- but also serves to protect you from yourself. Wherever immaturity and emotional disturbance | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| means to you that people will no longer protect you and therefore it is difficult to risk | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| in fear and close yourself up, meaning to protect yourself. However, this defensive reaction is so imbedded | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| not muster the energy that is necessary to protect yourself. With the glandular reaction, however, you will | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| hopelessly dangerous and futile, to run away and protect yourself by hiding. There is no room for | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and anger precisely because this enables you to protect your physical safety. Such concentration does not leave | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| with spiritual life. They were merely safeguards to protect health. If humanity at this time still clings | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| laws of cause and effect, that God can protect you from certain stages that man has to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| walls -- all of which are supposed to protect you. To give up this protection induces fear | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| off because you thought that doing so would protect you. When you start the work, the conscious | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| fear of having to shed attitudes that supposedly protect one from hurts; and, third, insistence on remaining | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| I stop myself from warm, loving feelings to protect myself. In spite of the numbing effect on | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| detriment, for it is the wrong way to protect yourself and to cope best with life. The | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| forces and the high degree of awareness would protect them from negativity and the resulting tension between | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| on certain attitudes that are obviously destructive but protect you from danger. This makes it appear as | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| numbness. Even though you created the numbness to protect yourself from the supposed dangers of life, you | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| whole. Instead, you wastefully and ignorantly think you protect yourself by denying them. You think the life | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| tight and guarded, you not only fail to protect yourself from danger, but you close yourself to | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| their existence in you not only does not protect you or is favorable for you, but is | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unable to assert yourself, and even unable to protect your truth and integrity. When it comes to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| reasons or pseudo-reasons why people believe they must protect themselves from the very thing that makes them | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a person's inalienable right to be happy and protect their ability to grow, expand, evolve. Concomitantly, one | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of dying off, or exclusion, sets in to protect the whole organism from being affected by life-defeating | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| not wish to admit this in order to protect your self-image, others will reflect this negativity. Your | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| between these two types of recognition, you can protect yourself from hopelessness, or at least realize that | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| state of self-consciousness. This state needs structure to protect it from the chaos of negativity and destruction | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| defenses you have so painstakingly erected serve to protect you not only from the evil of others | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| your doubts in the open will, at least, protect you from the illusory nature of your faith | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| pain and deprivation upon you, and you again protect yourself by denying the pain rather than experiencing | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| being has anything to cover up, defend, or protect, then the full potential of your creativity and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| me all I ask for, and you must protect me from all unpleasurable feelings. My hopelessness will | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| of the lower self which you used to protect so jealously. Reach out with tentative questions, questions | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| not met, or in situations where you should protect your rights for the sake of the truth | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| cases, to justify one's own situation, or to protect oneself from admitting the destructive intent, then nothing | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| evil. There is no one formula that can protect you from evil: only sincerity of heart can | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| that doing so will annihilate you. You ardently protect this limited consciousness, yet this very limitation creates | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| fit the truth either. If you have to protect this pretense, which may seem desirable in order | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| trusted and the only way the self can protect itself is by being as mean as the | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| your interests are contradictory, that in order to protect your interests you must defeat others, and vice | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| outlook about the very subject you so doggedly protect with certain opinions. You wish to believe that | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| believe that only your selfwill and pride can protect you from danger. This implies that the universe | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| to dismiss wishful thinking and restrain pride will protect you from illusion -- and the pain of | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| to doubt in the destructive way, faith must protect you from being submerged in it and blotting | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| planet and to serve it. As such you protect yourself in an incredibly efficient way against the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your lower self, you need those laws to protect others. But where you have outgrown the lower | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| your brittle hardness with which you think to protect yourself. In the open, vulnerable state you fear | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| assume that in this open state you cannot protect yourself against abuse. Nothing could be further from | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Christ to guide you, to infuse you, to protect you, and to love you. And you discover | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| universe to be hostile to you and you protect yourself against this alleged hostility with destructive defenses | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| foresight manifest in the smallest details designed to protect, sustain and maintain each species. The abundance, the | 254 SURRENDER |
| and the greater the show of I must protect my autonomy, so I will never be told | 254 SURRENDER |