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of compulsion, instead of free choice. With such superimposed goodness does not count in the real sense 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
subtler and more deeply buried. Good desires are superimposed on selfish ones, which are suppressed and relegated 47 THE WALL WITHIN
formation of an intellectual concept should never be superimposed on the still-lingering emotional false concept. This would 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
passive current, where an unhealthy, compulsive activity is superimposed. Both sexes have been afflicted by the long-existing 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
here, once it is your own and not superimposed knowledge, you will go through life with a 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
of other people. You penetrate right through their superimposed layers and masks. That is the case, as 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
happens if these reactions are hidden under a superimposed parody of manhood. In another sense this weakens 62 MAN AND WOMAN
truly beneficial. It would only affect an unhealthy, superimposed, and equally ungenuine layer of the man in 62 MAN AND WOMAN
accomplish anything. At best, it will be a superimposed faith. And the stronger the superimposition, the stronger 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
stronger the inner, unconscious rebellion against one's own superimposed faith -- adopted merely because it was expected 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you have no faith and no love under superimposed levels of pseudo-faith and pseudo-love. Only after fully 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
motive is. Such a motive may also be superimposed. The moment you feel that selfishness is still 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
certain extent, but it is blurred, it is superimposed by the outer will, which can come from 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of the real self are components of this superimposed layer, however. Many other currents, stemming from these 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
and pseudo-strength. Another will hide it behind a superimposed layer of something that resembles the real self 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
real you can live in it, for the superimposed layers, created out of unreal concepts, cannot live 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
is inauthentic can ever bring success. And a superimposed layer, covering an original wish, is never genuine 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
a current problem. Strip it of all the superimposed layers of your reactions. The first and most 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
consciously at all. Consciously they may have a superimposed faith. All their lives they heard what their 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
of self-search is to free you from the superimposed layers so that your real self can take 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
and therefore ineffective and damaging. They are the superimposed layers, which cover your real self. Your real 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
Such trust would not be justified, for the superimposed layer, based on untruth, can only lead you 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
damaging. Your real self knows. Trust it. Your superimposed compulsive behavior pattern is completely blind. The one 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
will flow out the moment the subterfuges, the superimposed, compulsive feelings are shed. And this, in turn 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
help it. At other times, you feel the superimposed hurts are sufficient reasons to maintain your resentment 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
also be careful of the pseudo-calm harmony, the superimposed lack of need that is simply a withdrawing 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
torn between several alternatives. By stripping away any superimposed motivations, at the core you are bound to 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
superficially religious who wants to avoid death by superimposed faith are two prototypes. Neither realizes that each 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
motivations, they despise themselves for it. Moreover, the superimposed faith has no real power to help them 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
ability to accept death is based on the superimposed knowledge that life goes on and that death 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
you face that part of it which is superimposed on your terror of death. For only then 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
pain become one. But there are also imaginary, superimposed, and therefore unhealthy ways of doing this, and 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
no death and misuses them. The result is superimposed faith that is embraced out of fear and 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
dissatisfaction do a great deal of damage. The superimposed denial of the longing for pleasure supreme may 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
mature way presupposes true humility, not a false superimposed one. It presupposes a certain generosity of feeling 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
that the first, and obviously right reaction, is superimposed. One tries to have it because one has 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
become genuine and dominant. Often, if goodwill is superimposed, it becomes an obstruction unto itself. So, goodwill 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
set of feelings may not even be forcefully superimposed. It may be quite genuine, but one does 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
rationalized and justified, reason holds on to the superimposed, compulsive aspect and does not allow the true 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
already constructive and mature are blocked by a superimposed level, vastly inferior to the intuition. Such overemphasis 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
conflict becomes too great to bear, this secondary, superimposed solution is adopted. The first two solutions are 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
of the higher self, and an artificially constructed, superimposed conscience which derives from the idealized self. The 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
They intertwine and overlap. Not only do the superimposed, unhealthy, and artificially created needs of the idealized 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
needs, and the artificially created needs of the superimposed idealized self-image. Only as you learn to maturely 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
you can first give up the false, distorted, superimposed, artificial needs, and then you can go about 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
acutely feel the real, as well as the superimposed unreal needs. Simultaneously, train yourself to feel your 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
approval, impressing others. This then has become a superimposed, false need, covering up the real need. To 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
may lead to repression, suppression, to a forceful, superimposed action that cannot be helpful to genuine growth 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
your deep inner reality but instead with the superimposed layers of your personality; relying on public opinion 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
like to be as an adult, which is superimposed. Then, as time goes on, she really grows 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
to differentiate between the real self and the superimposed self. ANSWER: It is not necessary that you 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
with your intellect between the real and the superimposed self. It is a question of feeling and 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
fully participate in life? The shallow artificiality of superimposed positive emotions lacks real substance and is therefore 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
live in the now. You will dispense with superimposed values and find your own. You will dispense 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
life cannot function naturally and organically, unhampered by superimposed commands? The real self always dares to be 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
so used to all these false levels, these superimposed, defensive layers, that they have become second nature 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
experiencing all sorts of other emotions that are superimposed by your pseudo- solutions and defense mechanisms. If 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
itself was perfectly all right were governed by superimposed, immature reasons, crutches, rather than the reality of 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
be done in a spirit of fulfilling a superimposed duty. The more you grow into life and 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
awareness of your needs or displace them onto superimposed needs that are not genuine. This displacement creates 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
is something real, unless it is displaced or superimposed by an unreal one. A drive, as I 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
needs. You may know some of your unreal, superimposed needs, but only after a fuller understanding of 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
consciousness because you wish to comply with standards superimposed by your society, by public opinion -- or 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
cripples spirit and soul more than adopting a superimposed doctrine, even a right one. I have spoken 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
than a mature and healthy will that is superimposed by outer means, determined by educational influences, by 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
you determine your will by something that is superimposed and not experienced by your still childish emotions 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
you will see that you have used a superimposed standard to cover up what you really feel 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
unconsciously think that you cannot let go of superimposed standards, ignoring the fact that if only you 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
may very well be the same as the superimposed standards you adopt from the outside. Yet there 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
you are not ready to dispense with the superimposed, intellectualized concepts, and thus look at yourself naked 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
happens when you wish to live up to superimposed standards and ideals; you do it because you 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
not, then it comes from the mind, from superimposed ideas, from outer knowledge -- and therefore it 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
dissolved as long as you are driven by superimposed standards. As long as shame and pride induce 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
from what is. QUESTION: You were talking about superimposed standards. How should we educate our children? At 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
every standard we give to our children is superimposed. ANSWER: Well, my dearest ones, this is a 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
to develop inwardly by facing the truth. Outer, superimposed standards would only be a structure for those 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
God he has to appease by man-made and superimposed rules. But I might also add that what 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
drive yourself into a false perfection that is superimposed and therefore destructive. Only when you have the 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
before it is brought out into daylight. Your superimposed hope masks an inner hopelessness that says, If 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
This is what it amounts to. Is that superimposed hope a reality? Is it not much better 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
the deliberate numbing of feelings, just as the superimposed faith and hope cover their hidden opposites. In 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
another side -- and I do not mean superimposed standards, but real, inner standards. When such is 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
soul. Reactions and responses that are based on superimposed modes of coping with life, not originating from 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
any spiritual or religious belief, if it is superimposed from the outside and not experienced inwardly, is 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
are so much more reliable than your often superimposed good obsolete reactions and responses. Let the gathered 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
-- STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE LOWER SELF AND THE SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE Greetings, my dearest friends. Blessings for all 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
worldly psychologist when working with his patients. Any superimposed opinion, whether true or false, is a hindrance 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
we have called the lower self and the superimposed conscience. So often an expression or a term 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
emanating from the real self, the other being superimposed. It will be useful to review briefly some 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
useful to review briefly some characteristics of the superimposed conscience. When religious people speak about conscience, they 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
the vast difference between the inner and the superimposed conscience. In their eagerness to make the human 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
Because of this pressure from the outside the superimposed conscience is strengthened and the inner, real conscience 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
real conscience becomes more covered up. Yet the superimposed conscience is not necessary to prevent a person 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
would serve as well, or better, than the superimposed conscience. The latter only does harm. As explained 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
the first phase of this inner struggle the superimposed conscience hides the lower self, instead of bringing 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
growing out of the infantile state. But the superimposed conscience hides also the most constructive and creative 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
only because you have too long used the superimposed conscience, instead of giving yourself the chance to 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
or she does so because of the harsh superimposed conscience which knows no mercy; which is inflexible 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
and distortions, your lower self, but also the superimposed conscience. It is the latter that creates so 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
from reaching freedom and truth. It is the superimposed conscience that induces you to reject yourself as 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
from both these unrealities. You cling to the superimposed conscience in the false belief that it alone 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
you alienate yourself further by clinging to the superimposed conscience. You find yourself in one of those 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
the real self, one must cling to the superimposed conscience, obeying, conforming, appeasing, and blindly following it 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
fear -- in other words by following the superimposed conscience -- and following the voice of your 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
be the same. If you rebel against the superimposed conscience, you are no more free than if 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
if you obey it. If you obey the superimposed conscience, and the result of such a decision 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
and your own standards. The fight between the superimposed conscience and the primitive, self-centered, destructive child is 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
are quite free and function without clinging to superimposed demands, standards, or rules as they may actually 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
It is noteworthy that you adhere to the superimposed conscience and do not accept your shortcomings or 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
awe or fear of, usually stands for the superimposed conscience, because one so desperately tries to win 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
Not only social rules are incorporated in one's superimposed conscience, but also particular rules of the superimposed 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
superimposed conscience, but also particular rules of the superimposed conscience of the parent in question. It may 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
not the actuality. You cannot possibly recognize the superimposed conscience in its full significance unless you view 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
the whole picture will your struggle between your superimposed conscience and your actual and/or imagined lower self 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
The fight between your lower self and your superimposed conscience may be completely different from the fight 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
cared-for child necessitates your holding on to the superimposed standards and thus to the superimposed conscience. With 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
to the superimposed standards and thus to the superimposed conscience. With it, you hope to appease, coerce 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
within their deep inner self uninfluenced by the superimposed conscience, as being right for them, then it 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
you still live under the yoke of the superimposed conscience which is supposed to make everything so 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
the primitive little child in you and the superimposed conscience. If you were not engaged in this 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
might have stricter standards than those of the superimposed conscience. The real self's standards are often more 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
one tries to cheat life, often using the superimposed conscience and the ready-made rules as a shield 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
with what conforms or is contrary to temporary, superimposed values. You may deem something constructive and good 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
to something unpleasant because it conforms to the superimposed, arbitrary value system you often follow. I sometimes 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
This tendency completely contradicts the ideal which is superimposed and is presented to the world and to 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
many degrees between them. At one extreme are superimposed rules, taboos, and false guilts, which cause anger 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
feelings have been shifted into different channels or superimposed by other feelings. No matter how deep a 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
one-sided greed exists. The greed may then be superimposed with a false, compulsive giving which - - 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
giving which - - just because it is superimposed and not the result of natural growth -- 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
Consequently, the need for sex is denied and superimposed with substitute needs. Feeling erroneously guilty about the 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
gain information about your innermost self, unadorned by superimposed rationalizations. In this way you will find your 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
defeatism will make room for genuine -- not superimposed -- hope, and a positive attitude toward life 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
order to manipulate, or punish others. The false, superimposed tendencies have to disappear before genuine strength, security 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
longer separation or conflict between the two. The superimposed intellect, the outer intelligence, is filled with, motivated 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
always be accurate. The child exists between a superimposed, or partly superimposed, intellectual maturity and the highest 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
The child exists between a superimposed, or partly superimposed, intellectual maturity and the highest source of all 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
part genuine, integrated maturity interspersed with a false, superimposed, intellectual maturity -- not cemented by emotional experience 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
true life -- not by following forced, artificial, superimposed commands from the intellect, but the spontaneous inner 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
At this stage you believe that only the superimposed veneer that covers the foreign body gives you 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
succeeded to some degree in stripping off your superimposed layers of pseudo-goodness and pseudo-love. However, you have 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
others. Real feelings cannot be forced, commanded, or superimposed. They are a spontaneous expression, happening as an 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
the outflow of genuine love as opposed to superimposed love, and of the capacity to express healthy 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
You had repressed, denied, and hidden them, having superimposed false positive ones. Hence you lost touch with 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
truly transform defects, the less necessary the outer, superimposed values become. They are often senseless, especially from 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
while the struggle against it is secondary and superimposed. So you are still pulled toward contact. But 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
-- as distinct from allegiance to handed-down values, superimposed standards or cultural mores. Such a liberated state 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
is not squashed, if good behavior is not superimposed over a seething pool of anger, fear, anxiety 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
neurotic layers of your personality mix in with superimposed perfectionistic standards. Neither one of these ways is 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
are experienced together, side by side, or one superimposed over the other. The new is as yet 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
of individuals. Conflicting interests exist only on the superimposed levels of falseness, neurotic needs, and destructively selfish 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
may manage also to deny -- on a superimposed surface level -- what you long for. You 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
are neither your negative traits nor your self-punishing superimposed conscience, nor even your positive traits. Even though 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
mind rejects a thought that your consciousness has superimposed on it, this process will not work. You 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
is often every bit as unnatural, dishonest, and superimposed, as opportunistic and conformist, as false religion used 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
self-justifying victimization, this may lead to a false, superimposed serenity that covers up a great deal of 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
deliberately abstain for a while from using the superimposed feeling to practice with. Say, someone uses fear 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
of your purification and will not be a superimposed attempt to direct energy willfully. You can entrust 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
with a strongly focused mind and will, the superimposed outer will must have its effects accordingly. A 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
awareness of its meaning. You then create a superimposed false reality. This happens in several ways. In 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
and not in another. But this cannot be superimposed from the outside. Only when you go very 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
you do not really want to do. The superimposed, false desires do not give real pleasure, nor 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
self is becoming constantly predominant. This is not superimposed in a wishful denial of the lower self 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
suspect does not exist. Perfection then becomes a superimposed solution for the worthlessness that you do not 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
diffuse and not pinpointed in conscious awareness. The superimposed perfection -- or rather perfectionism -- is always 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
resemblance to a false faith. It is not superimposed in order to avoid facing the underlying fear 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING

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