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work, to overcome, to fight, and to recognize self-responsibility for all suffering in the most direct way 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
place, many people think that the concept of self-responsibility eliminates God. They either think that there is 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
atheism. This is not necessary, my dear ones. Self-responsibility represents a burden to you as long as 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
courage to be yourself in every respect, then self-responsibility will liberate you. Understanding what in you has 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
have fully understood your own causes and effects. Self-responsibility is crucial in this connection, my dear ones 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
you have curtailed your own freedom, given up self-responsibility in order to choose what seemed like an 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
are both motivated by the desire to escape self-responsibility. And the more you escape this in your 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
or bad, and thus tried to get around self-responsibility. Here you have two opposite mass images following 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
eyes of God, can cheat life, and avoid self-responsibility. To begin with, such a child will know 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
is unjust -- to self- indulgence, rejection of self-responsibility, and the expectation that God will indulge and 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
you have no control, or whether you reject self-responsibility and expect an indulgent, pampering god to fix 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
fears of life and love, of reality, of self-responsibility all lead to separateness. What this actually means 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
and independent. Self-pity is a complete rejection of self-responsibility. It expresses further the hidden desire to force 53 SELF-LOVE
with a certain cowardice and refusal to assume self-responsibility. I am only pointing out that it is 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the right answers, but realizing that you have self-responsibility and are, therefore, accountable for your decisions, whether 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the cross upon yourself you say yes to self-responsibility and so to your fate. By the mere 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
have the proper attitude toward life and want self-responsibility. Otherwise, hardship will not even be a test 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
reach the point of complete understanding of what self-responsibility means. There is so much misunderstanding about self-responsibility 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
self-responsibility means. There is so much misunderstanding about self-responsibility. We always struggle to save you from your 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
longer be a truth. In the case of self-responsibility, such distortion can happen by associating this concept 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
what should happen. You might use the word self-responsibility to nourish your guilt and your inferiority feelings 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
60. THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY Greetings, my dearest friends. Blessed be this evening 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
amounts to just that: you wish freedom without self-responsibility. Thus you wish for a pampering, indulgent god 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
yourself the part where you desire freedom without self-responsibility. With the method of our work, it should 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
desire at least in some way: freedom without self-responsibility to the full extent. You may wish to 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
toward life as a whole you still refuse self-responsibility, yet you desire utter freedom. If you think 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
the basic truth, that freedom cannot exist without self-responsibility, is not outside but within the human soul 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
go of the illusion and to assume full self-responsibility seems so hard to you that fear of 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
will fall right in if you really assume self-responsibility. Therefore, you constantly strain away from it, stemming 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
result of the unreasonable desire for freedom without self-responsibility. It is the idea that you can come 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
fear can exist only because you deny your self-responsibility. Therefore, others must be responsible. If you did 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
to the Utopia of having freedom and refusing self-responsibility, you could easily perceive that you are indeed 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
are truly willing and prepared to accept full self-responsibility, the vision of truth will prove to you 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
you see the truth and the importance of self-responsibility. In addition, self-responsibility will cease to be something 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
truth and the importance of self-responsibility. In addition, self-responsibility will cease to be something to shy away 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
good part of the reason why you reject self-responsibility. By making independent decisions, you are bound to 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
is ready to face himself, thereby assuming true self-responsibility, he or she will increasingly be drawn into 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
inwardly. The very reluctance to assume adulthood and self-responsibility makes a person prey to the fear of 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
well established on the road to maturity and self-responsibility in the inner and deeper sense -- which 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
permits viewing anything as black or white. True self-responsibility is the only safeguard and can come only 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
responsibility from yourself. But a child cannot assume self-responsibility. ANSWER: It is understandable why you would think 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
put it the other way around: By assuming self-responsibility, you solve the problems. QUESTION: We are all 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
one person or a hundred. As long as self-responsibility appears to be dependent on the number of 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
QUESTION: I would like to ask something about self-responsibility. Would not self- responsibility lead to irresponsibility toward 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it is hard to even begin answering it. Self-responsibility is not only completely incompatible with irresponsibility, but 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
have at least grasped the real meaning of self-responsibility. Otherwise, your responsibility toward others will always fall 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
thus deceiving themselves about their own lack of self-responsibility. And now we come to the part of 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the long run. It is not true that self-responsibility has anything to do with selfishness. If you 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
myself alone, what then am I? COMMENT: And self-responsibility means only that we are responsible for our 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
different way, but of course you are right. Self-responsibility does not mean that you just go ahead 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
develop myself? Does it further my independence, my self-responsibility, my maturity, my self-honesty? Or does it further 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
shall have gained the full understanding of what self-responsibility means, fear dissolves because you know without a 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
sense. The freedom and safety gained from complete self-responsibility is something that cannot be conveyed through words 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
person's self-expression, but also undermining the sense of self-responsibility which is spiritually the most harmful act imaginable 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
do what you do, ignore the significance of self-responsibility, they can only do so much in a 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
mind with God, then we will truly have self-responsibility. It seems to me, in contemplating the Abyss 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
have been saying about love and creativity, our self-responsibility lies in the acceptance of the re-expression of 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
know what it is. QUESTION: It is about self-responsibility, and about certain philosophic fixations we seem to 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
it is not. Therein lies the confusion about self-responsibility. When leaning on the fixed rule, you shift 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
shifted onto yourself. When you no longer fear self-responsibility, because you have lost your self-contempt and mistrust 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
the child who cannot or dare not assume self-responsibility. The fear of the unknown really comes from 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
you lose this fear, you will not fear self-responsibility and you will not fear the truth of 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
is generated, which always happens when maturity and self-responsibility are not attained. Whether you fear an avenging 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
this wrong impression as long as your inner self-responsibility is not fully established. When that comes about 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
perceiving into a more correct channel; you assume self-responsibility when you know it is you, your own 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
child, to refuse the apparent hardship of adulthood, self-responsibility, and independence. To the child in you it 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
aloneness. Such acceptance will strengthen the independence and self-responsibility essential to the God-creature you wish to become 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
unknown is connected with acceptance of independence and self-responsibility. Both indicate spiritual and emotional adulthood, freedom, growth 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
true faith come out of strength, self-reliance, and self-responsibility. All these are attributes of emotional maturity. And 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
emotional maturity. And only with strength, self-reliance, and self-responsibility are true love, involvement, and faith possible. Anyone 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
courage, humility, and the will to take on self-responsibility. Due to the split, these positive ideas have 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
of which derive from cowardice, pride, lack of self-responsibility, and the will not to change yourself but 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
do not want to take upon yourself mature self-responsibility. This may not apply to all your outer 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
high that price is. This running away from self-responsibility and from the apparent risk of living and 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
dogma appears, it shows rigidity and lack of self-responsibility in thinking for oneself. Thus it becomes something 101 THE DEFENSE
authority in the hope of being relieved of self-responsibility. On the other hand, his fears of life 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
superstitious God- Image and self-projection of man, denying self-responsibility. This latter state of atheism, erroneous in itself 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
predominantly from fear, evasion, escapism, wishful-thinking, denial of self-responsibility. The latter is often a necessary transitory period 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
second stage of atheism, man learns to assume self-responsibility. He lets go of the wished-for hand that 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
the latter, it simultaneously cripples free decision and self-responsibility by forcing man to obey certain prescribed rules 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
of such confusion. An omnipotent Creator and man's self-responsibility are only mutually exclusive when viewed in time 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
question. Then you will know, profoundly, that complete self-responsibility is not exclusive of a supreme Being. A 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
would demand certain obligations and the assumption of self-responsibility, but you would rather take on false responsibilities 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
perhaps no other subject in which so much self-responsibility is shifted to the rules, merely because one 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
a child. It indicates greed and lack of self-responsibility. This may be difficult for some to admit 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
productive and harmonious and he refuses discipline and self-responsibility where this would be functional for his self-realization 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
harmoniously. Through healthy strength, flexible discipline, and mature self-responsibility the entity becomes strong enough not to fear 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
need be. This discipline of self-awareness and the self-responsibility of facing the real situation makes you grow 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
the healthiest way conceivable of practicing discipline and self-responsibility. In this way you can face the reality 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
-- if it were true, for instance, that self-responsibility and adulthood are more painful than the position 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
also talks about the necessity of self-government and self-responsibility. At the same time, spiritual teachings postulate that 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
of a benign parent, rejecting the need for self-responsibility. Concomitantly, as long as you need such an 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
contradictions unify into one whole truth: By shouldering self-responsibility, by realizing that you alone are the creator 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
no longer different levels of functioning. Then mature self-responsibility and entrusting oneself to God, asking for His 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
self will stands in the way of mature self-responsibility, and often must be given up so that 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
cosmic intelligence become interdependent instead of mutually exclusive. Self-responsibility and self-government do not mean arrogant overestimation of 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
is looked for as a substitute for mature self-responsibility and accountability, true contact with the life force 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
the consequences of one's actions; such desire denies self-responsibility, liberation, and true mastery over one's fate, and 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
desire for dependency and reward, through rejection of self-responsibility. In fact, the wishful thinking has to go 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
to a limited state. Rather, it means true self-responsibility. It means to be aware that your freedom 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
in a relaxed, unstrained, stimulating, harmonious way. Perfect self-responsibility comes from the recognition that you are the 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
individual rhythm of your personal path, you assume self-responsibility instead of trying to fit into prescribed rules 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
and hear points to liberation and selfhood and self-responsibility. Therefore it is easy to overlook the subtle 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
a healthy balance between accepting help and accepting self-responsibility does not mean one versus the other. The 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
correctly surmise, there is a great fear of self-responsibility. The fear is, of course, completely unjustified. It 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
where my ego is overdeveloped. Where I fear self-responsibility, that is where my ego is underdeveloped. Is 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
you simultaneously deny when you refuse self-choice and self-responsibility. Only it does so by choosing the wrong 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
-- good or bad -- your mentality denies self-responsibility for the unwelcome experience, and your emotions disturb 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
become worse and worse. The immature believe that self-responsibility means confinement. Of course, the exact opposite is 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Conversely, the weakness of an ego that fears self-responsibility makes self-surrender, and thus pleasure, impossible. The person 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
Selfhood, autonomy, self-assertion are aspects of maturity and self-responsibility. They are intensely pleasurable and must also be 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
moving, acting, initiating, activating, doing. This aspect includes self-responsibility, independence, autonomy, free choice, and the power of 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
in God in a way that virtually abandons self-responsibility, who leave everything to God to justify their 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
passive and let things go instead of accepting self-responsibility for finding the way and perhaps doing what 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
dependent self, the part that wants to abdicate self-responsibility. Healthy self-interest can, however, be against the interest 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
toward fruition, is distorted when the entity refuses self-responsibility. If self-activation is relinquished and, instead of surrendering 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
false receptivity and letting go, meaning denial of self-responsibility, laziness, following the line of least resistance. Trying 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
feasible only when you lose the fear of self-responsibility and face the entire truth about who you 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
area where he does not want to assume self-responsibility and thus uses others as a substitute for 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
for one's unhappiness is another way of negating self-responsibility, as mentioned before. Such blame always incurs an 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
these opposites is a harmonious balance of proper self-responsibility and a freedom from assuming the burdens of 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
misconceptions. Resentment against them violates the law of self-responsibility. Similarly, you are not responsible for the neurotic 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
center of the ego, aggression, self-assertion, backbone and self-responsibility. All these attitudes are centered in and come 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
weak back and ego, the lack of independent self-responsibility, have a counterpart in a rigid front that 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
a disadvantage, overlooking the fact that only in self-responsibility can you truly live and move and vibrate 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
on the physical. How can you shoulder mature self-responsibility? How can you accept the difficulties of the 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
life-inhibiting patterns can exist. Accepting reality and mature self-responsibility seems an insurmountable hardship if not accompanied by 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
same token, to the degree that you assume self-responsibility, to the degree you respect and love yourself 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
or else I feel persecuted. The denial of self-responsibility leads to false acceptance -- hopelessness, resignation, doom 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
begin to live. Once he decides for life, self-responsibility will no longer seem undesirable, but will, in 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
is only when you begin truly to assume self-responsibility by looking at your own problem in the 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
another. Such distortions indicate projection and denial of self-responsibility for the difficulties in relating. This denial fosters 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
affect all people indiscriminately, to rationalize away true self-responsibility, self-determination, and positive involvement with life. The life 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
express and obtain them. The very need for self-responsibility and self-discipline in their most profound sense will 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
psychic level corresponds to a psychological refutation of self-responsibility and to the insistence on blaming life or 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
and thinking. When people begin to assume true self-responsibility, they will gradually also cease to wait for 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
other, prevents you from even wanting to assume self-responsibility. Doing so seems to require giving up all 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
human helplessness. The truth leads people to assume self-responsibility in every conceivable respect. Most human beings are 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
and avail yourself of the key to freedom: self-responsibility. This is not a postulate or an unverifiable 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
also the result of a refusal to assume self-responsibility, or to deal with less than ideal circumstances 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
Real pain is peaceful because you assume full self-responsibility without self-manipulation. Neither do you say, Poor me 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
denial of voluntary self-discipline, which goes together with self-responsibility. Every expansion must be fought for with self-discipline 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
becoming whole, for being in reality, for true self-responsibility, for opening up a channel to your divinity 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
and honesty. It demands the utter integrity of self-responsibility. But the relief, safety, new energy, and creative 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
life diminishes in the ratio in which your self-responsibility increases and becomes so pleasurable that you would 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
aspect of your inner being and ignores your self-responsibility for anything but outer, conscious actions. You also 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
it too becomes an escape from one's deepest self-responsibility and thus robs one of the conscious capacity 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
is still prevalent now, negated the concept of self-responsibility. In broader terms of evolution, this century's attitude 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
seen as an innocent victim. The call for self-responsibility is still confused with the previous blaming, arrogant 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
balance, the love, and the truth of creative self-responsibility. Now the truth of self-responsibility can be regained 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
truth of creative self-responsibility. Now the truth of self-responsibility can be regained on a new level. Instead 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
were. The pendulum must swing until love and self-responsibility are no longer split into apparently mutually exclusive 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
truth, guidance and the need for self-discipline and self-responsibility. Inwardly, however, people do rebel against the momentary 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
be roughly the second state. In this state self-responsibility begins. The awareness of having an effect on 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
a distortion of the healthy, realistic attitude regarding self-responsibility and self-dependence, of knowing that there is no 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
step from needing the group to emancipation and self-responsibility, the pendulum may first swing slightly too much 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
the third phase where you will find true self-responsibility, your own inner strength, your autonomy, your own 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
thus liberate your inner God and establish true self-responsibility. Then you no longer need the confinement of 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
ascertain where you do not want to assume self-responsibility, where you want to be taken care of 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
victimized herself by acting out a denial of self-responsibility; she acted out taking the line of least 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
one plays a slave in order to avoid self-responsibility. The old fairy tale that a woman's career 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
major lesson of life. Having learned self-determination and self-responsibility, having been guided into this understanding, they have 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
very simple little steps, above and beyond the self-responsibility we usually talk about and work with again 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
deny the prohibition of feelings, positive aggression, sexuality, self-responsibility and autonomy. But they certainly should not deny 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
Lack of self-knowledge inevitably led to lack of self-responsibility. Thus humanity felt victimized by evil spirits. Fear 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
the invisible realities in order to grow into self-responsibility. However, what was ridiculed as superstition was in 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
to do with it. At a time when self-responsibility was little developed, grace was interpreted in this 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
accept. In the present general state of humanity, self-responsibility is much more developed. You understand that you 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
is as much a reality as self-creation and self-responsibility -- and they are by no means mutually 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
an object. Instead of admitting the fear of self-responsibility on all levels, the woman made herself an 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
fine balance. For a dependent ego that denies self-responsibility it is quite impossible to surrender. In such 254 SURRENDER
undercurrent of dependency and the denial of genuine self-responsibility. The greater the rebellion, and the greater the 254 SURRENDER
you need to attempt, very consciously, to further self-responsibility in every possible way -- overtly and subtly 254 SURRENDER
more perfect because you still wish to abdicate self-responsibility, or whether you want to be always armored 254 SURRENDER
is exactly the problem of still avoiding full self-responsibility, autonomy, accountability. Your freedom is directly dependent on 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
law, spiritual health are being established. The individual's self-responsibility is indeed the key to this. When the 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS

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