| Self-hurt...................1 | |
| You will not give in an attitude of self-hurt, submission, and masochistic self-punishment, nor will you hold | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Self-hypnotic...............1 | |
| an illusion. Extended fasting, concentration exercises, chanting and self-hypnotic reiteration of meditational phrases can indeed produce results | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Self-idealization...........2 | |
| you will continue to cultivate more separation, and self-idealization must be the consequence. Self-glorification and idealization seems | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| power cannot lead to unrealistic arrogance, specialness, and self-idealization when you are constantly dealing with your lower | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Self-identification.........9 | |
| eventually discover this. Before I talk further about self-identification, I would like to describe a few symptoms | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| only to perpetuate the identification, and thereby prevent self-identification, the original purpose has been misconstrued. In this | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| be, if it serves as a substitute for self-identification, there is harm. The harm is not in | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| that comes to you at all times. 189. SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS Greetings and blessings | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| itself. It comes entirely out of the false self-identification mentioned above. If you believe you are your | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| lost in them, and therefore cannot attain proper self-identification. Although your desire to hide the destructive aspects | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| toward creating more joy and pleasure. The moment self-identification takes place, a deep and apparently bottomless terror | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to a new goal. To whatever degree proper self-identification has not taken place, and you find yourself | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| life. 232. BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION Greetings and divine blessings for all of you | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Self-identity...............4 | |
| these questions -- with the deep problem of self-identity. It is a human distortion to identify with | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| continue to be blindly controlled by a false self-identity, or rather by its consequences. The I that | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to blind involvement, giving up on finding true self-identity and settling blindly for a would-be existence, you | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| confusion only adds to your lack of true self-identity and to your despair about it. Appearance values | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| Self-illusions..............4 | |
| road, it is infinitely better to have no self-illusions than to create this unhealthy and sickly aura | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| off your masks, you believe the pretexts and self-illusions, the voice of your lower self, because you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to look at themselves in truth, to abandon self-illusions and delusions, cannot come to such a transition | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the most difficult in every respect. To remove self-illusions seems at first insurmountably difficult, since all human | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Self-image..................120 | |
| in peace, be in God! 83. THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE Greetings. God bless all of you, my dearest | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| and death, is the creation of the idealized self-image as a universal pseudo-protection. They never realize that | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the creation and the function of the idealized self-image. I have occasionally used the term mask self | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to be something you are not. The idealized self-image is supposed to be a means of avoiding | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| oneself are interconnected. The creation of the idealized self-image serves to supply the missing self-confidence and to | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the links between your unhappiness and your idealized self-image. You need to grasp the significance, the effects | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| that follow in the wake of the idealized self-image and to fully recognize its existence, in the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| fact, you are desperately hiding it. The idealized self-image may assume many forms. It does not always | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| recognized perfection. Oh yes, much of the idealized self-image dictates highly moral standards, making it all the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| more you try to identify with your idealized self-image, the harder the disillusionment whenever life brings you | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| devious, subtle, unconscious ways in which this idealized self-image exists in your particular case. Ask yourself in | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| standards that are then incorporated in the idealized self-image. As a child, the human being encounters disappointment | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| all of them when incorporated in the idealized self-image. The submissive type will have a harder time | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| painful, aside from being contradictory to the idealized self-image which recommends self-effacement as supreme virtue, it has | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of the divine attribute of love. The idealized self-image of this type will have corresponding distortions as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| as the other two types. This particular idealized self-image dictates standards of godlike independence and power. Believing | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| hypocritical the goody-goody type is. Since this idealized self-image demands such power and independence from feelings and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| The inability of living up to the idealized self-image always has this effect. When one closely analyzes | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| one closely analyzes the demands of any idealized self-image, one finds that omnipotence is always contained in | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| nature, is a crass violation of their idealized self-image and brings on deep shame. Conversely, the submissive | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| impossible when the dictates of a person's idealized self-image simultaneously demand one to love and be loved | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to be aggressive and often ruthless. An idealized self-image may therefore simultaneously demand of a person on | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the standards and dictates of this particular idealized self-image. This will make him or her just as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| these solutions will the tyranny of the idealized self-image manifest. All this has to be found in | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to get rid of the life- prohibiting idealized self-image if you merely observe what is in you | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| will then find what impossible demands your idealized self-image makes on you. You will see that it | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| You will see that it is your idealized self-image, and not God, not life, not other people | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| friends, because after all, you established the idealized self-image, as I indicated in the previous lecture, because | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| shifted to a substitute. For instance, the idealized self-image may dictate to live up to something, or | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| if the tyranny and pride in your idealized self-image are weakened by this work. Proceed on this | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of them is the creation of the idealized self-image. Emotional insecurity, is experienced to some degree by | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you have made in connection with your idealized self-image, you know that its nature is very proud | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| on, the precarious pseudo- safety of your idealized self-image. The healthy personality can take defeat. You all | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| for any semblance of defeat. As your idealized self-image weakens, you will no longer command yourself to | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| from being what you are. But the idealized self-image pretends. Often, the goodwill to superimpose ideal standards | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| battle against recognizing the falsity of the idealized self-image and the consequent reluctance to give it up | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| its voice. The compulsive pride of the idealized self-image exerts its rules, dictating to the personality to | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| I shall read it: We present our idealized self-image to ourselves, as well as to the world | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you have to hold on to your idealized self-image for dear life because, after all, it was | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of the far goal may enlarge the idealized self-image. So the near goal should be the next | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| life's difficulties. The various aspects of the idealized self-image we have discussed are unconscious attempts to cope | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| over others, competitiveness, and excessive demands. The idealized self-image will be set up according to these tendencies | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| not correspond to the dictates of their idealized self-image. When you find such a submissive attitude in | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| will find the main components of your idealized self-image, comprising, perhaps, all three tendencies. Only after this | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| a relatively well-integrated child, how does the idealized self-image manifest, as against the real self? Is there | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| a human being is, the weaker the idealized self-image. It may then manifest only in the disturbed | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| distortions and soul disturbances, everyone has an idealized self-image. The strength of obstructions determines the strength of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of obstructions determines the strength of the idealized self-image and to that extent the child -- or | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| is always a good indication of the idealized self-image and its pseudo-solutions. Fantasy stems from the predominant | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| serve as additional material for search. The idealized self-image shows up in more than just fantasy. It | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| verified only after extensive work. If the idealized self-image shows in the desire- life, it must also | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| no need whatsoever to daydream about the idealized self-image. A very active fantasy life in which desires | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of an urgent need to become the idealized self-image. QUESTION: Isn't every child when it is born | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the exaggerated demands and standards of your idealized self-image. It would hinder you from accepting yourself as | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to reach the heavens clearly symbolize your idealized self-image? While you struggle within yourself, being at war | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| motives. The same is true of the idealized self-image, which cannot succeed and is bound to crumble | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pretentious and ostentatious means than constructing the idealized self-image or the Tower of Babel. It is your | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the Tower of Babel. It is your idealized self-image, your Tower of Babel, that divides you within | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with your search for glory, with your idealized self-image, no matter how subtly or unobtrusively it may | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the relationships among the main image, the idealized self-image and the God-image, particularly in regard to prayer | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to the God-image determines the type of idealized self-image that you establish; this attitude represents your pseudo-solution | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| turn, represents the predominant attribute of your idealized self-image. The establishment of the idealized self-image has a | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your idealized self-image. The establishment of the idealized self-image has a further purpose in connection with the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the rigid standards and demands of the idealized self-image not only serve the purpose of coping with | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| against. This holds true even if the idealized self-image is predominantly rebellious and antisocial, because the rebelling | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the God-image will subtly merge with the idealized self-image. You try to identify with what you fear | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| whether you want to or not. The idealized self-image serves the additional purpose of easing the brunt | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| basic helplessness links the God-image and the idealized self-image, creating the fundamental problem with its pseudo-solutions. The | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God-image, and that, in turn, creates the idealized self-image. QUESTION: How should I regard my guilt feelings | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| caused by resistance to giving up the cherished self-image of the good person. The need for such | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| out of the need to maintain your idealized self-image: This is the way I should be. Because | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| should be. Because you cling to this idealized self-image, you cannot find your real self, and do | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| pretense, of your false maturity, of your idealized self-image. And you tremble because you know it and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the reality of yourself instead of your mistaken self-image, the strength of negative emotions will abate. Yes | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| for not allowing you to be your idealized self-image, where you feel it prevents you from being | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| already discussed this in connection with the idealized self-image, and with the excessive demands and expectations you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| The more demanding the standards of your idealized self-image, the more rigid your superstructure will be. But | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| is then often projected on others. Your idealized self-image is created not only for winning love and | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| leads to repression and therefore to a false self-image. It leads not only to self-deception, but to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| other hand, when the voice of the idealized self-image speaks, many of these negative feelings will be | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you have heard the voice of the idealized self-image. The answer as to which of the two | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| indicates, on the one hand, a strong idealized self-image, that is, I must be perfect already. This | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| process, you have to review how the idealized self-image came into existence. The two kinds of needs | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the artificially created needs of the superimposed idealized self-image. Only as you learn to maturely go about | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| together with all the traits of the idealized self-image, and the various pseudo-solutions. Only by courageously going | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| way, whatever the images are, whatever the idealized self-image is, and whatever the various pseudo-solutions are. Even | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| one hand, and your moralizing tendency and idealized self-image on the other, make of the terms sin | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| dealing with that topic and with the idealized self-image, you will understand what this means in terms | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| single person. Everyone has pseudo-solutions and an idealized self-image. Both are based on a form of pretense | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| picture, which might very well be your idealized self-image. QUESTION: Is a criminal, especially a habitual one | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| extent. Wherever you have found your great idealized self-image, with all its tyrannical demands upon you, with | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| drives. These drives are connected with your idealized self-image, your self-glorification, your feelings of inadequacy and your | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| your lack of belief in yourself, your idealized self-image and your resort to pseudosolutions. These shortcomings create | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| various other aspects, are incorporated into your idealized self-image. Since the nature of the idealized self-image is | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| idealized self-image. Since the nature of the idealized self-image is self-aggrandizement, it separates you from others. Since | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| deeply ingrained in you and in your idealized self-image makes it impossible for you to accept yourself | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| aware of the particular nature of your idealized self-image. You have some inkling in what way you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| all illusions, all measures to strengthen the idealized self-image. As I have said in this lecture, intellect | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| what you feel. It may contradict your idealized self-image. All this has to be found and deeply | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| this work, our whole discovery of the idealized self-image is that, after all, it is simply the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| the conscious self. As you know, the idealized self-image denies all limitations. It pretends possessing all that | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| consideration of the exact opposite of the idealized self-image should now be taken into this work by | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| images, main problems, unresolved conflicts, pseudo-solutions and idealized self-image. Look further into your personal displacements. How have | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| progress on this path, your pseudo-solutions, your idealized self-image, your defense mechanisms have given you some measure | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| a considerable extent the pseudo- solutions, the idealized self-image, the defense mechanisms, but the original problem may | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| work you have found and dissolved the idealized self-image, the pseudo-solutions, etc. Hence, the small, precarious success | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| not be flattering or compatible with your idealized self-image. Even if your finding proves not to be | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| These are the pseudo-solutions, connected with the idealized self-image. With these the person hopes to defend against | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| it is not. It explains why your idealized self-image is so destructive. You feel more confident when | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| that. Some find certain facets of their idealized self-image, for example, and content themselves with that, not | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| wish to admit something so contrary to your self-image. The destructiveness causes fear and insecurity because you | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and therefore apparently incapable of, shedding your idealized self-image, if you insist on living up to its | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| to admit this in order to protect your self-image, others will reflect this negativity. Your reaction to | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| ego becomes almost convinced of being the idealized self-image. This surface conviction is constantly counteracted by the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| only superficially -- perhaps only revealing your idealized self-image which you think is the only acceptable part | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| facade for the world. It is the idealized self-image you want so much to be that you | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| have a very strong investment in their idealized self-image, which makes no room for this truth, will | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| involved in the dualistic struggle, defending their illusory self-image. They are therefore blind to the psychic reality | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| I will not shy away from destroying my self-image, my vanity, my pride. For the truth and | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| specific events. The latter may contradict your idealized self-image, your moral standards, your overall personality, but the | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |