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| or of any outer situation. Those who are blind to their own truth must be blind to | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| are blind to their own truth must be blind to the truth of others. The knots and | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| will open your eyes instead of making you blind; it will make you strong instead of weak | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| with a heavy veil, so that you become blind. You can neither see yourself nor others. Genuine | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| see yourself nor others. Genuine love is not blind, for it can come only out of a | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| fulfill and even to sacrifice. Yet where the blind, sick, or immature parts of the soul resist | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| grey, solitary world that seems risk-free to the blind part of the soul. It is impossible to | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| criminal tendencies of a less highly evolved being. Blind, impossible demands may rub him sore, so to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| used than strictly necessary to set the imperfect, blind, unconscious currents right; some future earthly lives could | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| from God and anything spiritual and thus become blind and unreceptive to the spirit. Thus this brother | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| separates you from your surroundings and makes you blind to truth, because vision cannot come when a | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| and enduring than those furnished by the still blind spirits, which might produce strong momentary impressions but | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| very different from those of unclean or merely blind and unknowing spirits. There are many ways you | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| firm hand -- not the way they, being blind, imagine, but to put them on the spiritual | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| you wanted to but because in your own blind insecurity you thought that this was the best | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| God's personality aspect that is active, would be blind to the experience of the female side of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| belong to the divine order and are thus blind in many respects. They often seek to influence | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| best of your spiritual advantage because they are blind. Sometimes their guidance may be to your material | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| This is one of the inconsistencies of the blind and undeveloped self. You have given up your | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| human development knows very little, is still very blind, and if he becomes a criminal it is | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| a whole. You in your world are so blind. You only recognize what is right in front | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| However, this view is so shortsighted and so blind. Happiness can only exist for any created being | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| personal development. It may be that you are blind to some aspects of your own personality and | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| came into existence. Without this longing, unconscious and blind as it was at the beginning, nothing could | 22 SALVATION |
| another by not having enough understanding, by being blind. For if you are blind to yourself, you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| understanding, by being blind. For if you are blind to yourself, you are perforce blind to your | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you are blind to yourself, you are perforce blind to your surroundings. And each individual fault of | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| so miserable, the same fear that makes you blind to the joys of life. Remember that it | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| who are genuine truth-seekers, and yet they are blind in one or two respects to their own | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| advanced in some ways, yet there is one blind spot in them, a stubborn resistance to facing | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| is used as an escape. If you are blind to that part of the teachings that could | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| of you, even the wise ones, became very blind and very unintelligent in this one respect because | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| invite any misunderstandings: self-will belongs to the little blind ego and is thus the will of the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| will is always contained within you, behind your blind spots. From the moment you take off your | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the self. Only the little ego is too blind to understand this. Self-will is a blind and | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| too blind to understand this. Self-will is a blind and immature state, too blind to realize that | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| Self-will is a blind and immature state, too blind to realize that what it desires is against | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| up for the lack of self- respect. The blind, unconscious, and immature side of you believes that | 31 SHAME |
| them better. You do not have to be blind to be tolerant. A basically intolerant person often | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| this respect, and ask if you are not blind to some of your own mistakes, while so | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| you be aghast at your having been so blind. You can save yourself many a difficult hour | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the Plan of Salvation. Pray for all the blind creatures who are still in darkness. Pray for | 36 PRAYER |
| inconveniences them. At the same time, they are blind enough to believe that what God wants for | 38 IMAGES |
| and brotherly understanding. Then you will not be blind to your shortcomings, but will face them, and | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| way of knowing. When you persist in being blind to the faults of your loved ones, a | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| not only lose control over themselves but become blind to that which is often most important for | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the difference, because your intuition is dulled by blind and rigid reaction and revolt. But when you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| about your own good motives. Only the very blind, those human beings who are still spiritual infants | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| it in the past. I was ignorant and blind and selfish. I was too much of a | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of other people, the others are no more blind than you are -- and often even less | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| more strongly against the world around you -- blind to how you caused the negative results. The | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| must be denied outright because it is so blind and so far away from understanding the purpose | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you. But as long as you deliberately remain blind, because the child in you thinks that by | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| be a wall you can lean on with blind certainty and confidence. This is why it is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| that they reacted out of the same childish blind needs as you did. Now you can see | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| also channeled in the wrong way. It is blind searching, as opposed to mature and conscious searching | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| whole, instead of an end in yourself. The blind and ignorant human ego is struggling against the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| in a distorted, ignorant way, yes. A spiritually blind person always thinks that being unduly selfish preserves | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| it. Your superimposed compulsive behavior pattern is completely blind. The one is haphazard. It may be right | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| try to struggle out of this conflict by blind and unconscious attempts to make two mutually exclusive | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| forces and how they damage you in your blind struggle can you realize how much superfluous energy | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the experience or only much later. Even a blind and rebellious attitude toward suffering will eventually benefit | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the capacity to feel and experience. However, a blind and ignorant attitude toward suffering will make you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| and blueprinting is therefore bound to make you blind to reality. It inhibits your spontaneity and intuition | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| so does the tendency of religion to encourage blind obedience. Both causes produce personalities distorted by helplessness | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a free human being can attain divinity. Once blind obedience is eliminated from religion and from the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you will develop humility. From clinging appeasement and blind obedience -- often without understanding -- you will | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Be in God! 92. REPRESSED NEEDS -- RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS -- PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS Greetings, my | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| indicates maturity. Repression, on the other hand, creating blind needs and their blind pursuit, makes it impossible | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the other hand, creating blind needs and their blind pursuit, makes it impossible to see what the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| more urgent your natural needs are, the more blind you will be, and the more limited your | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| is. But your lack of acceptance makes you blind, self-centered, and fearful. Only in learning acceptance can | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| momentarily not so pleasant things, you become so blind that you do not even perceive the love | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| do not even perceive the love. You are blind to it because deep inside you connect love | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| awareness that most of the time you are blind to your own reactions can the blindness gradually | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| are still self-involved, withdrawn, fearful, anxious, bound, and blind to the other person. The more you are | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| in your anger, perceive them as groping, vulnerable, blind, and troubled humans? Or do they take on | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| out of blindness, and it must make you blind. Since this current derives from a lack of | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| you to stay on your guard and be blind to life, other people, and yourself. Thus the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| love. Anyone in that condition is selfish, egocentric, blind, and cannot understand others. Immaturity means separateness. In | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| you covet something you do not possess you blind yourself, because you believe that having what you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| be achieved by outer means. You are also blind when you ignore the inner causes of your | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Does the light on the path make us blind to the wrongs in the social organism of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| thus colored. No, you certainly need not be blind because you are on a path of self-finding | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you. For their demands are often an unconscious, blind plea for love. Their demands are a substitute | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| are starved and therefore terrified by refusal are blind to others. All they feel is their own | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| And even those who are too timid and blind and lazy will be swept along by the | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| them miracles. An individual steeped in this earth-world, blind to the power of the spirit and the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| you are right in it, but you are blind to it. You do not focus your attention | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| you tend to the visible manifestation, while being blind to what causes it. Be in peace. May | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| stemming from your desires and fears, distort reality, blind you to factors that existed or will exist | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| intense relationship that is often turbulent because of blind egocentricity, selfishness, or possessiveness may certainly appear to | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| which is inflexible in its demands and is blind in its evaluation. Yet one never rebels against | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| standards which may be exerted by society. Your blind, excessive standards make it impossible to reach the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| eternal values. These values are not accessible through blind acceptance. Eternal values may seem pleasurable while going | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| soul is healthy, you are free of the blind compulsion to relive the past. We have often | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| happens to be comparatively liberated from his own blind prison, his response will not add fuel to | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| situation. The more conscious you become of your blind automatism, your stereotyped responses, the more they will | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| level is not infiltrated with movement and consciousness. Blind emotions of which one is not aware are | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| feelings seem problematic because there is too much blind adoration, or too much resentment -- more than | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of life on earth. The former is a blind attempt to overcome the duality and, as such | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| blockage has consequences. The freer you become of blind fears, guilts, and misconceptions, the more you can | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| resistance. But if you give in to the blind, faulty reasoning of resistance, you drag out the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| lack of concern, subjectivity and unfairness due to blind, isolating tendencies. If two nations have opposite aims | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Too often you try to force yourself by blind compulsion, while certain emotional reactions rebel. This does | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| occur. What appears as contradiction to the conflicted, blind person is no contradiction in reality, but merely | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| problems and your involvements which make you temporarily blind -- do not realize how much I am | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| openness and outgoingness, especially if the latter is blind and comes from wishful thinking. The answer to | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| this blindness to them must make you equally blind to other people around you who are supposed | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| is from what you wish at present. Your blind needs issue blind, unconscious demands which are often | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| you wish at present. Your blind needs issue blind, unconscious demands which are often quite impossible to | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| painful and unfulfilled. In this unfinished, ignorant, and blind state of terror, you would all too easily | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| against it is equally crucial. The temptation to blind oneself to the true issue, to project and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| This is the sad irony. They are so blind that what is their advantage seems like a | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| more you try to rationalize and explain such blind reactions, to make yourself believe that they are | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| is more primitive, such self-deception is less necessary. Blind automatism is always the result of unwillingness to | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| must be, in this context, concerned with uncovering blind reflexes. All subterfuges, rationalizations, explanations, justifications, self-deceptions, serving | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| until you are face to face with the blind reflex itself. When this takes place you are | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| say, you succeed first in specific areas, retaining blind automatism in others until much later phases of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| false ideas, you are no longer operating with blind automatism. Such a realization requires courage and cultivation | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| In proportion to how much awareness you gain, blind reflexes cease, and you reach understanding. Offhand, you | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| example of hostility. First, in the stage of blind automatism, it rages in the person's soul. According | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| people therefore are driven by it into a blind automatism that they choose to explain away. The | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| against the resistance to face what lies behind blind reflexes. The awareness that blind reflexes are still | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| what lies behind blind reflexes. The awareness that blind reflexes are still governing you in certain respects | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| have just discussed. It means becoming aware of blind reflexes; understanding why they exist and what they | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| yourself. This is the battle that leads from blind reflexes that every single human being is governed | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| created beings. Only on a path leading from blind reflexes to knowingness can one truly understand that | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| and clutch tightly because you are driven by blind needs, by uncomprehended compulsions, driven to thoughts, assumptions | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| not be governed by outer knowledge, or by blind reflexes, which may either make you fearfully overmodest | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| how much others are involved with their own blind reflexes, they are often a good mirror for | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| keeps believing that one can get by is blind. Holding back, you hope that life will first | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| own sake, without subterfuge. It does not mean blind foolishness and most certainly, it does not create | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| is not a hazardous, self-destructive process, not a blind compulsion or drive, but a wonderful extension of | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| itself if you ignore its existence or pursue blind, rigid practices. People have too ingrained a tendency | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| revert to their fearfulness of long standing, in blind automatism. Only knowing the truth will prevent this | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| the wrong way. Since the entire process is blind, and lacks awareness, the self-willed, wrong way of | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| part of yourself that has led you into blind alleys. But now the wiser ego can determine | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| of your instinctual life. The layer of destructiveness, blind selfishness, dishonesty, as well as the shameful attachments | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| be helped considerably. Not knowing this, continuing the blind involvement of the struggle, makes you incapable of | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| anxiety stemming from this conflict induces them to blind themselves to what goes on within. Whenever your | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| yourself. Since all this takes place on a blind, unconscious level, you do not know what you | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the free spirit of self-choice or acts in blind obedience. The words may sound the same, but | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| to rebellious opinions of a minority group. A blind, unquestioning, emotionally colored motivation, which outwardly seems courageously | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| engaged in such pathwork. They, too, may have blind spots. Perhaps they persist in overlooking what needs | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| automatic reflex reaction and, as that, it is blind. This makes you feel so guilty, so bad | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| opposite attitude of indifference, hostility, or compulsive and blind rebellion and over-aggressiveness. Few things give human beings | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| It is the most frightening only because the blind little self cannot see beyond the next curve | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| brings in its wake other destructive attitudes: stubbornness, blind resistance, the desire to punish those who one | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| fate since they cannot change others. In their blind fear of imperfection and concomitant pride they overlook | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| I do not do this and am too blind to be aware of it, I wish the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in self-realization, there are still some who are blind to such areas. Wherever people hold on in | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to such areas. Wherever people hold on in blind self-deception to such attitudes, they do not want | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of oneness. The existence of evil is the blind drive of not knowing, the vagueness of misbelief | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| as their own. Their suffering made them too blind because their blindness led them into suffering. Thus | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| is necessary when an entity is still completely blind and entrapped in error and destruction. The breaking | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| are connected, one's fate is no longer a blind and malevolent outer power. From that moment on | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| or giving up. This is often misunderstood: the blind escape-line of least resistance is a distortion also | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| as we are oblivious of them, we are blind to the causes of current hardship. But we | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| the ever-present universal self when you are still blind to your negative creations. Sometimes certain channels happen | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| them unused, or even misuse them in your blind state. You can finally begin to experience yourself | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| between two damaging extremes: either resignation or compulsive, blind, and consequently inappropriate overactivity. This obstructs the attainment | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and committed or haphazard and unconscious, obstructed by blind opposing forces that pull toward a state of | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| health and well-being. It makes, in its own blind way, peace with something traumatic and painful. On | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| equally damaging tendency to prove your independence by blind and meaningless rebellion. Rebellion no more leads to | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to make love to his mother. In the blind, semi-aware state of this resentment he could not | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| that you begin to be aware of your blind involvement in this guilt-shifting game. But how about | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| unresolved conflicts. As long as the reaction is blind and the projection of guilt unconscious, the counterreaction | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| strives toward separateness, destructive aims, fear, hate, and blind assumptions that never open doors to the light | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| usual, automatic reflex reaction to negative experience is blind contraction with its accompanying destructive emotions and thoughts | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| differently has not yet found its power. Your blind involvement enslaves you and inactivates your creative energy | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the line of least resistance, giving in to blind involvement, giving up on finding true self-identity and | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in identification occurs. Before such acknowledgement, you were blind to some or all of your destructive aspects | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| these states, making the change from being lost, blind, and confused about what and who you are | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| sense it, rather than miss out and be blind and deaf to it. For it always exists | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| self. In neither are you aware of the blind drives that lead you into submission and rebellion | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| deserves the punishment of my annihilation. And the blind person who is involved in this process without | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| between the two extremes. These extremes are the blind, wishful thinking that listens only to what you | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| I am stuck along the way and am blind, it is up to me to find the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| perceive. It would require a deliberate insistence to blind oneself not to be aware of remarkable progress | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| see it in you unless they are extremely blind, undeveloped, or insist on not seeing it. They | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| give new impact to your understanding and prevent blind usage. But I use this word in this | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| movement of the whole personality which becomes confused, blind and caught in destructively acting out, something must | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| is a magnificent sight for spirit eyes. The blind entity may suffer temporarily, but how good it | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| of this negativity on others, you must be blind when their negativity affects you. This is a | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| On the other hand, you are equally often blind to the negativity in others and falsely placate | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| made mistakes. I have made mistakes. They were blind and groping, and so was I. They were | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| struggle, defending their illusory self-image. They are therefore blind to the psychic reality of constant interaction between | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| you do not fall into the error of blind, flat evaluation. Look very carefully to sense the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| still submerged in those attitudes, as if half blind. You are not really cognizant of the way | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| The very pain that this causes makes you blind to it, therefore you react blindly; you can | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| the soul really longs for but is too blind to understand and to pursue. The pursuing of | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| such as your path. Since the limited and blind human consciousness merely gropes in the dark, very | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| truly speak up. You are no longer too blind to fully see the emotional involvement in your | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| see? Where does your blindness toward yourself inevitably blind you toward the other person, so that you | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| nature must manifest. Unfortunately, human beings are extremely blind to this. Even the most advanced psychology is | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| negativities come to the surface, often you still blind yourself to true reality as opposed to the | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| and at the same time make one utterly blind to the really desirable aspects of a possible | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| fogs created by illusion and distortion make you blind to true exemplary figures or at least to | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| of their traits. They cause you to be blind because your concept of what really exists in | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| recognize in others what you had previously been blind to. When individuals come to the state of | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| intentionality exists the mind remains proportionately childish and blind and its perceptions are commensurately limited. Once you | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| know that you possess that richness and are blind to it, you will truly believe and experience | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| that, but even here you are often quite blind to how you react to others, precisely because | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| exists without focusing on the problematic aspects, the blind spots. I have spoken about this in several | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| many new alternatives which are lacking in the blind and more limited state. The state of consciousness | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| phase of evolutionary development, you must eliminate the blind spots about the self, so that the self | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| mean for my inner process? Where am I blind? What could I see differently? The second law | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| no longer struggle against others' negativity in a blind, resentful way, without seeing clearly, only vaguely perceiving | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| to see in myself? Where am I still blind? What can you tell me? The divine voice | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| of humanity's development is that it is a blind belief in something you have no way of | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| And it has nothing to do with a blind belief in something that can never be ascertained | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| have a stake in making themselves deaf and blind to it. Many of them have the mental | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| who perceive only the negative countermovement and are blind to the light itself. When the light comes | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| mean you should revert back to the purely blind, emotional desire-nature, rather, it means you should open | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| other. If the movement is followed, unobstructed by blind resistance, by fear of change, but is trusted | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| does not require individuation; instead, it imposes a blind following and conformity. The halting of the movement | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| but are not yet within that stream are blind to it. They are not able to differentiate | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and enrichment. If you stem against it in blind fear and stubbornness, it will turn against you | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is necessary, organic, and inevitable. Individuals who are blind to the meaning of the crisis that was | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| the often more complex issues of inner morality. Blind obedience to rules enhances laziness of thinking, the | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| always find, in one way or another, a blind reaction that expresses the belief that to be | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| cannot even graze you. Then the light will blind them and keep them away when they reach | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| perfection -- or rather perfectionism -- is always blind, unsure, and therefore rule-bound. It uses truth often | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| can truthfully instruct or even point out the blind spots that still exist in the personality. Where | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| beautifully can point out all his or her blind spots. Such a person will then become self-enclosed | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| bad. You hinder yourself in that way, you blind yourself, and then really make it into a | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| to give and love, you may yet be blind to the areas where you demonstrate the opposite | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| but I still see many of you being blind to what is going on within, not acknowledging | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| then you are constantly confused, distorting reality, and blind to the magnificence of Creation. Structure and law | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| The first two alternatives of fearful acceptance and blind rebellion are obviously unloving and unfree. They are | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| and unfree. They are not deliberate choices, but blind, automatic reactions, and they bear the seed of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| When you are without childish temper tantrums and blind rebellion, you will be able to dissolve these | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| can develop a knowing reaction instead of a blind one. The knowing, conscious, probing, objective, deeply honest | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| never develop when you pursue a road of blind selfwill and accusing fury. An open mind and | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| love and how that differs from the rebellious, blind state you find yourself in now. When you | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| choice. Again, this will never be confused with blind rebellion, with the false kind of freedom, but | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| into new states of consciousness in which old blind reactions no longer have any room. In the | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| specific guidance so that you may never be blind to your inner direction, so that these energy | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| fall into place. This may take time, because blind spots and a deep unawareness may still persist | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| out, and hating yourself for it, or by blind rebellion against the authority, in order to avoid | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is not true dignity; it is merely a blind reaction based on emotional reflexes and turbulent feelings | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| tradition in an unthinking attitude, adhering to a blind habit that does not make sense, that fails | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| a dynamic thinking process, an awareness -- not blind repetition. So you see, my friends, tradition can | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| much as against its real, alive manifestation. This blind attitude is a result of the belief that | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| creature. Humans are not meant to live by blind emotions. To develop their emotional nature, they need | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| intent to hurt. Disconnection from deeper reality will blind you to the true meaning of events. Confusion | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| fails to discover your lower-self maneuvers and is blind, together with you, about the connections -- that | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| in your misperceptions of your reality and too blind about your role in your interaction with others | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |