| Self-pitying................4 | |
| persecuted and unjustly treated; you will be a self-pitying helpless little bundle -- and you will even | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| one psychological aspect has created a generation of self-pitying people who go around in life moaning that | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| let go and give up a self-centered, selfish, self-pitying, or self-destructive attitude, fear of self automatically decreases | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| others, less blaming, less vindictive and spiteful, less self-pitying. Hence you will increase your capacity of dealing | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Self-possession.............7 | |
| of yourself, yet without fear of giving up self-possession. This is the great experience that you are | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| overwhelming givingness; humanity's similar and hence compatible attitude; self-possession; the ability to deal realistically and constructively with | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| The next step in the chain reaction is self-possession versus self-alienation. If it is true that human | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| two aspects are truly key points, so that self-possession undoubtedly exists when these two aspects are healthy | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| essential for true selfhood. The second prerequisite for self-possession is being true to yourself. This may mean | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| exists and the central point has been lost. Self-possession can be regained only when the utter willingness | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| of others, regardless of the circumstances, it lacks self-possession. On the other hand, when the self is | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Self-preservation...........33 | |
| like to ask you if the instinct for self-preservation has anything to do with a person's choice | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| purification does not come from the instinct of self-preservation. This is really nothing but rationalization. QUESTION: I | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in God! 85. DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| as they appear in distortion: the instinct of self-preservation and the instinct of procreation. These instincts in | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| work constructively. The instinct of survival -- or self-preservation -- aims at gaining, maintaining, and improving life | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| every person in childhood. When the instinct of self-preservation is distorted, it fights against this feeling destructively | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| occurs. This disharmony is your distorted instinct of self-preservation at work, fighting for soul-safety or, as it | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| this seems protective. When healthy, the instinct of self-preservation will lead a person to refrain from self-endangering | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| not attempted. The perversion of the instinct of self-preservation brings in its wake further distortions. Certain faults | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| it. In such cases the perverted instinct of self-preservation is stronger. But that does not mean that | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| other hand, the distortion of the instinct of self-preservation, creating the restrictive, holding back, inverted motion, will | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| be myself. Is that a perversion of the self-preservation instinct? ANSWER: You are quite right. The perversion | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| You are quite right. The perversion of the self-preservation instinct is resistant to any change or growth | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| security through the distortion of the instinct of self-preservation, as well as happiness and pleasure through the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| blessed. Be in God! 86. THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT Greetings, my dearest friends | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the last lecture we discussed the instincts of self-preservation and procreation as they appear in harmony and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the pseudo-solutions. The function of the instinct of self-preservation is to maintain and safeguard life. It is | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| In general, the distortion of the instinct of self-preservation leads the soul to adopt the quest for | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to be a little more specific. If the self-preservation instinct is distorted, the following process occurs: The | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of danger. In that instant the instinct of self-preservation starts to work. In order to ward off | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| than those mentioned here. The distorted instinct of self-preservation will lead to the pseudo-solution of a quest | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to overemphasize and therefore distort the instinct of self-preservation. Therefore the instinct of procreation must, to some | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| bound to set in. The thwarted instinct of self-preservation tries to compromise; you will risk by submitting | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| by acting helpless. If the distorted instinct of self-preservation and its pseudo-solution, the quest for power, predominate | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| compromise solution is to try and make either self-preservation or procreation serve both ends. This, of course | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| needs derive from the two basic instincts of self-preservation and procreation. These needs can be healthy and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| as yet. In other words, your instinct of self-preservation is at work when not required. Whenever instincts | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to live in sloth because the instinct of self-preservation finally takes over when circumstances become bad enough | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| not be on selfishness, but rather on false self-preservation. Putting it differently, the resistance is a defense | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| demands giving up your intelligence, your rights, your self-preservation, your ability to choose, your self-determination. That is | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| should be their attitude? ANSWER: The instinct of self-preservation will most certainly make them fight and defend | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| much that the fear displaces the instinct of self-preservation. The ego misuses this instinct to preserve its | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is the deepest meaning of the spirit of self-preservation? If the deep mind knows that there is | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Self-preserving.............1 | |
| true, your procedure is therefore valid, necessary, and self-preserving. You will rightly say that if you live | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| Self-pressure...............1 | |
| experience it. You need to know it without self-pressure, without self-moralizing, without discouragement. All these forcing attitudes | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Self-probing................4 | |
| the particular issue and ask themselves honest and self-probing questions. Then they will know. In order to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| it is imperative that you occupy yourself with self-probing and testing, severe self-criticism and analysis of your | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| events in your life. In meditation, in serious self-probing, in checking your emotional reactions about the past | 38 IMAGES |
| many, of these reasons hold true. Only sincere self-probing will furnish the answer and will thus not | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| Self-produced...............14 | |
| nothing can come your way that is not self-produced. You do not have to be ashamed of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| in any of the existing currents because of self-produced conditions. These forces and principles work all around | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the unwanted pain, and fully understanding that the self-produced misery is of therapeutic value. Here again, a | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| misery in your life. The misery is always self-produced; it never comes from outside, no matter how | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| for magic and be able to accept the self-produced misery instead of cringing from it. And let | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| avoid the apparent danger of moving into the self-produced curve. The curve can lead out of strife | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| The courageous attitude of going through what is self-produced and inevitable must not be confused with masochism | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| total freedom to choose our attitudes to our self-produced fate. We can dwell in self-pity, resentments, and | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| and willingness to see that every frustration is self-produced and voluntarily pushed out of sight. Hence the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| a strength growing from tackling and challenging the self-produced difficulties, you will experience an inner growth, an | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| self-respect, my friends. The ability to handle your self-produced pain gives self-confidence and strength. How can you | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| life experience, only when you go through the self-produced negation and negativity. Otherwise the climate is too | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| misconceptions, defenses, negative intentionality, refusal to experience one's self-produced pain -- bliss is unbearable. But even when | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| very agent with which evil heals itself. All self-produced errors and their resultant fear, suffering, and negativity | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| Self-projected..............1 | |
| very different from the childish belief in a self-projected God which the mind has created out of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Self-projection.............2 | |
| a reaction to the superstitious God- Image and self-projection of man, denying self-responsibility. This latter state of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of a secretless life, you encourage a false self-projection. Your secrets mean exactly this: I want you | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Self-propelling.............2 | |
| -- feet -- symbolize decisive change, great decisions, self-propelling movement -- or the lack of it. These | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| being, but they are without self-consciousness, self-determination, a self-propelling initiative. The human state of consciousness is in | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Self-protection.............3 | |
| wall is a useless and illusory form of self-protection. In the last analysis it is simply a | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| self, geared to the old mechanisms of false self-protection. When these mechanisms are given up -- in | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| manifesting only in a certain guardedness and distorted self-protection. Outer good fellowship does not necessarily imply a | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |