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| that never comes to you when you receive selfishly and greedily. I realize that these are old | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| to focus your attention on yourself -- not selfishly, but constructively. Your attention should be focused as | 36 PRAYER |
| naturally immature, the sex drive will first manifest selfishly. Only if and when the whole personality grows | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| times when selfish motives induce you to act selfishly, you do not see it at all. Your | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| to false guilts, a person's sexuality may remain selfishly childish and is therefore unable to meld with | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| and breed further blindness. Greed wishes to amass selfishly when this is not necessary in the least | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| of group consciousness expresses itself in large groups selfishly running the masses; big concerns in which all | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| avoid destroying another human being willfully, blindly, and selfishly, in a state of emotional alienation where the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| those who would still harm others willfully and selfishly, cruelly and irresponsibly, in spite of the rules | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| your own lower self that wants to rule selfishly and cruelly. In hiding this tendency you project | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| in expression to those who abuse the laws selfishly, distort them according to their own, self-serving purposes | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| meaningless, all you can do is to push selfishly toward at least minor fulfillments, which are divorced | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
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| key to this problem. One should differentiate between selfishness and self- centeredness. Both are wrong, but their | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| will understand right away what this choice implies. Selfishness, anxiety, oversensitivity and pride have won out. When | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| take an example. A person is fighting his selfishness. This fault is in almost everybody. Some have | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| in another, but everyone has at least some selfishness in him or her. As at the end | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| -- for instance by visualizing yourself free from selfishness, or whatever other fault you may still have | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| does not want to admit that this is selfishness, begins to rationalize the selfish desire and fool | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| an outcome no one wants. Instead of overcoming selfishness by the slow process of development, people often | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| But they actually are selfish, and feel the selfishness. They hate the pressure of their higher selves | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| person is unaware of them. The example of selfishness is merely one instance; there are many other | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| influences a human being. If your fault is selfishness, there will be a selfishness specialist attached to | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| your fault is selfishness, there will be a selfishness specialist attached to you. If your fault is | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| spirit of anger toward you. When you emanate selfishness, you draw such a specialist toward you who | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you have to sacrifice may be comfort, self-delusion, selfishness, holding on to various faults and weaknesses. How | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| longing -- all of you. Everyone knows that selfishness is wrong. By the same token, everyone knows | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| this again would be a selfish goal, and selfishness is diametrically opposed to mysticism. Therefore, the goal | 18 FREE WILL |
| you to give up your vanity, or your selfishness, then that is where you should jump in | 21 THE FALL |
| still murder, stealing, wickedness or are now only selfishness, jealousy, envy, resentment, laziness, or whatever else, makes | 22 SALVATION |
| this earth -- your unrecognized hatred, your unrecognized selfishness, your unrecognized lack of love, and so on | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| negative aspects which are: a certain type of selfishness; a power drive; self-righteousness; a certain greediness to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| They say, occupation with the self leads to selfishness. Of course, it depends entirely on how the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| people by helping them, by giving up some selfishness, and by sacrificing something in order to help | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| right way -- is no proof of your selfishness. It all depends on how it is done | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| may be made that to love oneself means selfishness. Again, I say that this is only true | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| COMMENT: Yes. QUESTION: What about the problem of selfishness in prayer? ANSWER: I have discussed that on | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| motive that counts in all desires and attitudes. Selfishness always depends on the how. To determine this | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| should become purified. This cannot be construed as selfishness. Furthermore, it is certainly not selfish to pray | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| an end, rather than the end itself. If selfishness, namely the desire to become happy, enters your | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| lower nature. If you are not free from selfishness -- and scarcely a human being is -- | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| me does not accept my own ignorance or selfishness or my desire to find the easy way | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| being selfish and destructive, although this kind of selfishness is different from the selfishness of the reason-personality | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| this kind of selfishness is different from the selfishness of the reason-personality type. The emotion-type person needs | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| deceive myself that I am utterly free of selfishness, vanity, or whatever other trend may be involved | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| mass images. Certainly, violence and hatred, prejudice and selfishness, all the causes of war, are unspiritual. But | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| so with all people who have realized that selfishness and self-serving aims do not bring many desirable | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to what extent your desire is colored by selfishness. This conflict is often not yet conscious. You | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| infants, seek selfish ends and believe that their selfishness will serve their purpose. Whoever has outgrown spiritual | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| yet reached the stage where the desire for selfishness has been emotionally outgrown. This is the stage | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| The moment you fully accept the idea that selfishness still has a larger place in you than | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| believe -- perhaps unconsciously so far -- that selfishness will bring me reward, will protect me from | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| guilt feelings, hostility, hate, aggression, ignorance, resentment, childish selfishness, fear, and a few other obstructive forces. More | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| manifestations of more primitive persons. When errors of selfishness and egotism exist on the surface, the repercussions | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| is to learn gradually to rid yourself of selfishness. This happens first by recognizing where, deep below | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| wrong. Then you need to learn how harmful selfishness is -- harmful not only to people you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in contact with, but harmful to yourself. And selfishness is no less harmful if hidden and covered | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Such a motive is proof of the very selfishness that you want to eliminate and therefore it | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| your fear of loving, which is born of selfishness and separateness. Combine your sexual drive with the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| hurt other people in your ignorant belief that selfishness is your protection -- whether you hurt them | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the incentive to lose your fear and your selfishness. My advice, dear friends, is that when you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| maturity does not exist. Emotional maturity knows no selfishness. This is relative on earth, of course; it | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| but the outer unselfishness can camouflage your emotional selfishness or ego-centeredness. You may give away your possessions | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you are primitive in your selfish reactions. Your selfishness may come as a shock at first because | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of separation, sometimes by one's own law of selfishness. Such people disregard not only the law of | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| wrong. When you face them -- their ignorance, selfishness, and immaturity -- without being ashamed, and apply | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| on other people. All faults, every kind of selfishness, is nothing but a misunderstanding and a wrong | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| self-love exists in many forms. The crudest is selfishness, putting oneself in a better light or position | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| before. Those who were taught that self-consideration is selfishness are completely confused. They assume that something advantageous | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the mask of waiting for God's will, lacks selfishness and self-will. It may be much more self- | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a goal for unity. You all know that selfishness, self-centeredness, is contrary to Divine Law. Since humanity | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| direction; it stands for dishonesty, hypocrisy, cowardice, avarice, selfishness, egocentricity, separateness. The static principle in its positive | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| that in reality has nothing to do with selfishness. But when, in your petty vanity, you place | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| or through the cruelty, the ignorance, and the selfishness of others. This fear is as illusory as | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| I my brother's keeper? Wouldn't it lead to selfishness, being responsible only for my own life and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| And now we come to the part of selfishness. This is an important subject in itself to | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| future. It touches a mass image which says, Selfishness is pleasant. One must not have it because | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as such. If you harm someone else through selfishness, you are bound to harm yourself too. This | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| true that self-responsibility has anything to do with selfishness. If you find the real you and are | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the consequences. It has nothing to do with selfishness or unselfishness. ANSWER: I know, but I also | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS Greetings. I bring you blessings, my dearest friends | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| have a vague, unconscious feeling that your possible selfishness will jeopardize obtaining what you want, because you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| functioning. I am speaking about your concepts of selfishness and unselfishness. People very frequently think -- and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| desires which have nothing whatever to do with selfishness. Thus, you have no way of sorting them | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you fail to discriminate between actual and imagined selfishness. Every time a rightful and healthy impulse for | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| if it were your really immature and crude selfishness. The question now is how to treat the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| question now is how to treat the real selfishness that exists in the immature part of every | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| deserved fulfillment of your desire. The idea that selfishness, if allowed, would be a happier state, may | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| which one is not. As to the actual selfishness that seems, consciously or unconsciously, so advantageous and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| or unconsciously, so advantageous and desirable: In reality selfishness cannot offer any advantage to you, even if | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| may actually seem to warrant the view that selfishness is advantageous. But if you follow through the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| automatically open a new vista, showing you that selfishness is not advantageous, either now or in the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| earth plane. When you think or feel that selfishness would be to your advantage, you are leaving | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| The truth will then dawn on you that selfishness is not advantageous and is definitely not in | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| This will free you of the misconception that selfishness could make you happy if you were allowed | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| right and good, but your misconceptions -- about selfishness as well as in other areas -- may | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| alternatives of either suppressing or acting out your selfishness. You can recognize it without indulging in any | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| your apparently unselfish act was really selfish. The selfishness has merely shifted. The process of finding out | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| also be superimposed. The moment you feel that selfishness is still there, in spite of the recognition | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| is, on the one hand, the guilt of selfishness and self-centeredness which makes loving an unprofitable, disadvantageous | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| wall of stone is not wickedness, or even selfishness. Neither is it the fear of being hurt | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the personality learns to face errors, faults, and selfishness -- which are for the most part suppressed | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| applies, therefore, not only to your faults, your selfishness, and your destructiveness, which causes you to form | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| always pleasant to face your faults, your childish selfishness, and your various misconceptions. The work becomes a | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| are happy. But happiness at the expense of selfishness is not the solution. Your aim is to | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the child is in you with all its selfishness, egocentricity, one-sidedness and unfair demands. Thus you are | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| be loved in spite of its unreasonableness and selfishness. This is why you are afraid of loving | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| yourself, to not have a certain amount of selfishness and vanity. To reach for the great goal | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| or, if you choose to refrain from this selfishness, your happiness is unimportant. This inherent misunderstanding causes | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| would like to hear about the matter of selfishness in prayer. ANSWER: I have discussed this on | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| are afraid that they pray out of mere selfishness. Here I can only say, my friends, that | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and in truth. This cannot be construed as selfishness. Thus you will pray that your motives become | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| person happy. So if you are afraid of selfishness because your purification and development would make you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and not as the end itself. Even if selfishness, namely the desire to become happy, enters a | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| lower nature. If you are not free from selfishness -- and a human being rarely is -- | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| life and death, happiness and unhappiness, love and selfishness, light and darkness. Your confusion comes about because | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| nature of these motives will reveal the fundamental selfishness and egocentricity prevailing in this attitude, just as | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| sacrificing, the underlying core may be a ruthless selfishness, self-centered pride and superiority, excessive demands and often | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| rule then may be ruthlessness, dominion over others, selfishness. This then is regarded as intelligent and those | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be an insight into one's tendency toward childish selfishness or greed or whatever else, but without being | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are near you. The so-called neurosis always contains selfishness, greed, pride, cowardice, egocentricity, and ruthlessness in one | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| Both are human. It is the same with selfishness as with any other trait. There is a | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| are expected to give up any kind of selfishness. Therefore you rebel and cannot accept giving up | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| cannot accept giving up even the kind of selfishness that is destructive of yourself and others. Moreover | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| current by obstructions in the psyche, such as selfishness, egocentricity, fearfulness and cowardice. Every time even a | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and rejection, as well as between happiness and selfishness. What can you suggest? ANSWER: Apart from the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the same token, the confusion between happiness and selfishness is also based on the principle of either/or | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| this is inner blindness which leads to outer selfishness and to separateness. The third cardinal sin is | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| to say that unfulfillment is always due to selfishness. It may be selfishness, or it may be | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is always due to selfishness. It may be selfishness, or it may be a childish self-concern. Yet | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| therefore will not become apathetic. Sloth always indicates selfishness. If you are too afraid for yourself, you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| resolved unless you come to see this basic selfishness and self-concern as unhealthy. Sloth is one of | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| conditions that prevent fulfillment, namely childish self-concern and selfishness. Since both sloth and gluttony come from confusion | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| punished by life; you will see the intrinsic selfishness and greed of it. As you calmly do | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| we are angered or disturbed by the perversity, selfishness or cynicism of others, or disturbed by corruption | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| man does not face his own injustice, greed, selfishness, one- sidedness, pride, fears, all on a deeply | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| do not even know it, outer greed and selfishness cannot be successfully eliminated. If you truly want | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| it is motivated by love or by separateness, selfishness, fear, or pride. You still evaluate yourself and | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| others. This will only simply strengthen their own selfishness. You then become confused and do not know | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| to receive everything but give nothing. Ascertain the selfishness and laziness in this voice once you bring | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| guilt upon yourself: the first caused by actual selfishness and lack of love, manifesting in deed, thought | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| wish is a clear stream without the slightest selfishness. Such a wish is a blessing. Such a | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| is an active current of energy. Fear denotes selfishness. Wishes are energy currents. The wish of a | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| may prevail: blindness, laziness of thinking and feeling, selfishness, egocentricity, cruelty, vindictiveness, and so on. The first | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| loved person will not be affected by the selfishness, or cruelty, or indifference you commit toward an | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| but is unable to cope with his hidden selfishness and cruelty due to repression, is unable to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| yourself -- perhaps against a doubt or against selfishness or some attitude that hides a lack of | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| self-centered, but the emphasis may not be on selfishness, but rather on false self-preservation. Putting it differently | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| that is often turbulent because of blind egocentricity, selfishness, or possessiveness may certainly appear to be the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the lower self and no such childish, preposterous selfishness and self-concern should have a place in you | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is always a remedy for inherent and hidden selfishness and self-centeredness. But it does imply a sense | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| a person could clearly see the childish, greedy selfishness and express it -- Since I am so | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the conflict would cease, even before the greedy selfishness entirely disappeared. The mere fact of being aware | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| The mere fact of being aware of the selfishness -- and its consequent wrong conclusion of self-denial | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| and requests, your unfair demands, and your childish selfishness. Let the irrational voice reach your surface awareness | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| that striving for personal fulfillment is identical with selfishness and greed is another obstacle to a healthy | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| giving up the small self will and its selfishness, not entrusting yourself to the vast power at | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| around you. It may be a form of selfishness. You may experience yourself in an essentially different | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| feel your love. Only by painstakingly acknowledging your selfishness can you truly convince yourself of your potential | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| are activated and moved constructively, and not by selfishness or any other destructive attitude. Isolation, and the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you fully commit yourself to a life of selfishness -- partly due to the ever-present existence of | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| be transformed, you must want to give up selfishness and the desire to cheat life, yourself, and | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| of totally committing themselves to a life of selfishness, they would soon come out of it because | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| or hers. That very fact will make the selfishness and dishonesty existing in the childish nature, where | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| confused with goodness, and strength with ruthlessness or selfishness. When caught in these confusions, you do not | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| your instinctual life. The layer of destructiveness, blind selfishness, dishonesty, as well as the shameful attachments of | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| further result: fear, guilt, anger, hate, greed, cruelty, selfishness, destructiveness of self and others -- of life | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| than the former kind. One must see where selfishness, cruelty, self-centeredness, greed, dishonesty exist, if only in | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the falsity, they can not shed the real selfishness, greed and cruelty. The moment you truly understand | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the more you must punish yourself for the selfishness and convince yourself that you do not deserve | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| be God! 164. FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS Greetings, my dearest friends. As always, blessings stream | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| inevitable further result is secret destructiveness and ruthless selfishness somewhere underground as far as emotional inclinations are | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| capacity to love and increases underlying separateness and selfishness in the destructive sense. So you can see | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| like to discuss the very important topic of selfishness. In the course of our work together we | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| personalities, who may desire to proclaim their destructive selfishness and separateness as health and self-assertion. This is | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the capacity to distinguish between healthy and destructive selfishness, so you will not fall into the trap | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| for you. The universally accepted principle is that selfishness is wrong, bad, undesirable, while all kinds of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| rarely makes the distinction that some forms of selfishness are intrinsically healthy and right. They guard a | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of genuine concern for the rights of others. Selfishness has a healthy origin. It says: I am | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| as selfish as it is unselfish. Unselfishness is selfishness, and vice versa. Sacrificial unselfishness always implies an | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| rage and hostility will build up hidden destructive selfishness. In your emotions and hidden desires you pay | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| reality to your own self. The hidden, destructive selfishness comes from fear and makes guilt an obstruction | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| to have concern for their true being? When selfishness is deemed to be bad and unselfishness good | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| happiness of all concerned. When the duality splits selfishness into false divisions and false values so that | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| true self-interest is nothing but egotism and destructive selfishness. This is why you need to be strong | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| soul: suffering, blindness and hopelessness produce loveless feelings, selfishness, and often the most violent and evil reactions | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of meaningless bleakness, unknown terror, reasonless violence, and selfishness. This layer does exist, but only as a | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| or you hate. If you pretend that your selfishness is the healthy version of self-assertion and thus | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| -- is the question of morality versus pleasure, selfishness versus altruism, self-deprivation versus depriving others. The whole | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| meaning has two facets. The first is that selfishness must sometimes be overcome if what is at | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| give. I want to shed all falseness, all selfishness, self-centeredness, negativity, and destructiveness, no matter how hard | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| A temporary negative unity exists instead. Cruelty, brutality, selfishness -- the truly criminal nature -- can find | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| -- whether it be cruelty, spite, arrogance, contempt, selfishness, indifference, greed, cheating, or something else -- you | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| traits themselves, including spite, cruelty, envy, hostility, and selfishness. How can pride, selfwill or fear be more | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| hatred and spite, for cruelty and greed, for selfishness and one- sided demands upon others must be | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| pride, fear, greed, envy, malice, cruelty, spite, and selfishness. The majority of human beings find themselves approximately | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| amply about this in terms like hate, fear, selfishness, duplicity, spite, cheating life by not paying the | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| or it can be an expression of your selfishness. All these possibilities determine the nature of your | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| of your sexuality. How does it reveal your selfishness, your cruelty, your lovelessness, your greed? Deal with | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the proper balance of right selflessness and right selfishness, as opposed to wrong selflessness and wrong selfishness | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| selfishness, as opposed to wrong selflessness and wrong selfishness. All these balances and dualities will become elements | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| it would be good to look at your selfishness, your lack of interest to add to the | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| may, in fact, be more selfish than overt selfishness. It may be part of your mask, your | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| you constantly discover aspects of negativity, irrationality, childishness, selfishness, destructiveness. You know that these aspects flare up | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| you acknowledge the existence of this voice of selfishness and meanness. Only as this attitude becomes consistent | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| satisfaction of my spite, my destructiveness and my selfishness, or whatever trait is in me that obstructs | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| and you believe you must cast out the selfishness, it will be impossible for you even to | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| if you know that there is a healthy selfishness that you have every right to pursue and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| unification. For example, instead of seeing unselfishness versus selfishness, you will truly see that healthy selfishness is | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| versus selfishness, you will truly see that healthy selfishness is good at certain times and that there | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| many other human beings. You may fear your selfishness. But your mask has put a cloak over | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your mask has put a cloak over your selfishness and your little meannesses. That mask makes you | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you know, there is a right kind of selfishness and there is a wrong kind. The right | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is a wrong kind. The right kind of selfishness preserves the right to unfold in the best | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| their possibly covert reasons to exploit you. This selfishness rooted in independence can easily recognize and refute | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| hidden agenda. People with the right kind of selfishness feel deeply deserving of happiness because they never | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the expense of others. The distorted form of selfishness splits the interest of self and others; the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| had to first bring out false and real selfishness in order to help you become unselfish without | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of false service and to expose the short-sighted selfishness of the lower, little self. Then you learn | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the lower, little self. Then you learn healthy selfishness, and from there you come into true selflessness | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| these teachings to escape from their hidden inward selfishness. Thus they will cultivate a service through martyrdom | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| do not under take to meet their hidden selfishness, and therefore their service will also be distorted | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| afraid because you still cling to a little selfishness here or there. Consciously giving yourself to a | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in a mind that is still geared to selfishness. For that selfishness comes from the false belief | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| that is still geared to selfishness. For that selfishness comes from the false belief that you are | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| and individual consciousness. They cannot differentiate between healthy selfishness and unselfishness as two expressions of the same | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| ways that split off the self from others. Selfishness, greed, ruthlessness, unconcern, and cruelty are manifestations of | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| struggle. Obviously this distortion is destructive. It implies selfishness, lovelessness, ruthless disregard for others to the point | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| outgrown your jealousies, your competitiveness, your ungivingness, your selfishness, your lack of concern, your unlovingness, your blaming | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| while you continue to practice pettiness, ungivingness and selfishness in your everyday life, and even deny or | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| When you free yourself of the impediments of selfishness, of the insistence to never experience frustration, of | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| in a negative sense -- always support indifference, selfishness, nonparticipation, promoting stagnation and hindering growth and change | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| not more than, those they disregard with shortsighted selfishness. The human family could not exist without a | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |