| Self-will-..................1 | |
| love, leaving the child unfulfilled. Now, if the self-will- current goes into certain channels, subconsciously the person | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Self-willed.................18 | |
| less active force than the obviously strong and self-willed ones. Often the contrary is true. The former | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| attitudes. The wrong kind of positive thinking is self-willed and impatient. The wrong kind of acceptance fosters | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| does not mean the kind of behavior that self-willed, primitive, undeveloped or antisocial people display. It does | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| amounts to -- is just as wrong as self-willed actions in which one just goes ahead without | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| believe that independent decisions are necessarily selfish and self-willed, it is equally erroneous that refusal of decision-making | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the child in you persists in its strong, self-willed current of subtly, emotionally, and unconsciously forcing others | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you in being loved. Letting go of the self-willed forcing current results in your becoming objective in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| they emanate. If you were less defensive, less self-willed, less concerned with rejection or the frustration of | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Your attitude is either that of a greedy, self-willed child who demands the fulfillment of all its | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| entire process is blind, and lacks awareness, the self-willed, wrong way of attaining selfhood is chosen, instead | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| desiring. As a compensation, the soul strains in self-willed greed -- from the conviction that fulfillment does | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| self, consisting of an apparently quite separate destructive, self-willed part and a still more hidden infinite divine | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| omnipotence is put into the service of the self-willed little ego. The latter must be overcome to | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the ego is over-tight, anxious, too rigid and self-willed, again the energy does not flow smoothly. Some | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to grow out of something one is too self-willed to admit. Selfwill creates rigidity and rigidity is | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| state of reaction in which you are neither self-willed nor spineless and exploited; in which you assert | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| another kind of person for the purpose of self-willed needs. If you can give that freedom to | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| You need to give up the strong, tight, self-willed yes or no to make way for a | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Self-work...................8 | |
| your particular main strength. If you consider your self-work from the point of view of these three | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| unconscious resistances often impair your joy in your self-work. You may experience a certain sadness when discovering | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| creates a distortion in its opposite. When your self-work has made you conscious of only one side | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| do not then use this stage of your self-work to stay stuck -- you know that anything | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| to find out where the personality most needs self-work, so that the outer person can focus on | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| paths that do not emphasize this aspect of self-work. This is a convenient way to delude the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| your stubbornness resists dealing with this aspect of self-work; it resists surrender to the divine kernel. Could | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| time and energy for the undertaking of your self-work. It often seems even more of a sacrifice | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Self-worth..................3 | |
| infant in you without losing your sense of self-worth, the better you will perceive the greatness of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| can it be different? If you attach your self-worth and your self-esteem to how you appear in | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| of fulfillment. Health, abundance, success, a sense of self-worth, emotional fulfillment in love with a mate, all | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Sell........................14 | |
| and to arrive at your own conclusions. You sell out your truth for an imagined personal advantage | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| every human, may at times compel you to sell your soul. This may happen in many subtle | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| do not have to beg, cry, submit and sell your soul in order to get what you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| -- sometimes very subtle -- with which you sell your soul in order to get love. When | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| who do have adopted someone else's experience and sell out their own insights. It is also possible | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| causes you to betray yourself and others, to sell your soul. Needless to say, this self-betrayal is | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| need for recognition by others which makes you sell your soul. It will give you the ability | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| self-dislike is, at least partly, the cowardice to sell out the truth for the convenience of being | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| Here is the vicious circle: The more you sell out, the less you like yourself, the greater | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of the soul one is constantly compelled to sell out and betray oneself in order to ward | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| which makes them feel impotent and compelled to sell out. You already know, my friends, that this | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| feel guilty. At the same time, he may sell out his integrity to obtain approval and affection | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| people who will buy what you have to sell, who will receive what you have to give | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| in order to be accepted one needs to sell out integrity and decency. All this happens constantly | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Selling.....................5 | |
| others, cringing and crawling to the point of selling their souls to receive approval, sympathy, help, and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| process will first manifest by your no longer selling out or downgrading yourself. You will find genuine | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| ploy that only hides the cheating, bargaining, dishonesty, selling out, and negativity that are present in the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| have crass manifestations, such as craving approval and selling out one's truth to impress others or to | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| to your dependency and fear either by submitting, selling out, and hating yourself for it, or by | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Selves......................55 | |
| at times; it is as if their higher selves would respond and encourage them to sense that | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| out of fear of giving up their little selves, or of taking risks, or out of a | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| not have. Few people truly possess their own selves, because they do not know themselves well enough | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| or whatever. Imagine, then, that you have two selves who fight each other. This I always tell | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| chaos in their surroundings and in their own selves by wanting to follow their own very incomplete | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| selfishness. They hate the pressure of their higher selves to act contrary to the desires of their | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| act contrary to the desires of their lower selves, but feel compelled to put on an act | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| to do so when you visualize the three selves I am presenting here. To lie to oneself | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| develop different means to deal with the different selves, and would know how to instruct the conscious | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| enough that only those who crucify their lower selves are ready for pure truth concerning anything in | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| that the teachings coming from within their own selves would not have been sufficient. Truth was spread | 21 THE FALL |
| long as people do not fight their lower selves and thus become enslaved to them and to | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not trust the harmony of their own innermost selves that will fit into the scheme of divine | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lives freely. They are enslaved to their lower selves, to their unrecognized desires, which push and pull | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| decision when they have to consider their own selves too. Without being aware of these thoughts, they | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| shame all human beings feel about their lower selves, their faults and weaknesses, their misconceptions and deviations | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| QUESTION: I am very confused about all the selves. The lower self, higher self, inner self, mask | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I first discussed the higher, lower and mask selves, it was a considerable time ago. It was | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the original motivation is different in these two selves. This will not be easy to see, but | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| what way do they interplay with our different selves? ANSWER: The negative or distorted thought and feeling | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| that. QUESTION: Doesn't this correspondence between two real selves often happen in silence? ANSWER: It can happen | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| others. Now how that communication between the real selves occurs is entirely unimportant and will happen according | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| as you and they are in your true selves; not experiencing yourself in your true strength; not | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| takes much more courage to be their loving selves than their self-assertive, strong selves. But let us | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| be their loving selves than their self-assertive, strong selves. But let us suppose the superior world of | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| actually try to live up to the idealized selves of our parents as well? Is this correct | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| wife, your child or friend as their own selves but rather as extensions of a previous experience | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| shy away from certain facets of their innermost selves. The tension and disturbance is then glibly explained | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| teachings postulate that human beings, with their small selves, with their little minds, cannot succeed without calling | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| go toward the true nucleus of their innermost selves, they gradually find peace and liberation. However, this | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| are, both their potential and their already realized selves, if they were to willingly offer their best | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| occasionally as totally separate from their conscious, deliberate selves; and finally they integrate these two parts of | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| friends, have now found a layer within your selves where you are face to face with your | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| true self. Those who have found their real selves are at home in the world, in life | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Only those who do not fear their inner selves in this respect will refuse the ready- made | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| an illusion as the separateness between your two selves. It is an artifact that comes into being | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| at this stage, you create these apparently two selves: the acceptable and the unacceptable. But in reality | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| to one another will also heal your own selves because of your growing awareness of what you | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| their whole reality and to experience their real selves beyond those negativities. This interaction will occur not | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| doors to realizing their talents, their needs, their selves. So-called laziness may be one manifestation of this | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| those who want to go deeper into their selves to do so and come out freed and | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| of consciousness so that the mask and lower selves dissolve and only the true higher self manifests | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| expresses itself. Only when the lower and mask selves are entirely conscious and their exact manifestations understood | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| without ever even daring to let their divine selves inspire them! These are the criteria for the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| it slowly, overcoming the negativities within the individual selves, and thus in the small nucleus. By recognizing | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| honest level, who fuse their spirituality, their emotional selves, their minds, and their physical beings. The bliss | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| possibilities. Will these individuals interact from their higher selves? Will their lower selves affect one another? How | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| interact from their higher selves? Will their lower selves affect one another? How much should each higher | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the infinite varieties of self-expression of all higher selves. Your being value can never interfere with the | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| have established a good connection with their higher selves. In that area they may have a flowing | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and wise choices. The strength of their lower selves and their inability and unwillingness to face and | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| a cause that goes far beyond your earth selves. Now I wish to speak about the meaning | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| forms, new heights of development in the two selves that can be passed on to others. The | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| most undesirable result at the moment. The higher selves of both entities are always at work. The | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| must be some temporary manifestations of your lower selves. I wish to discuss now another manifestation of | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |