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| and then think, or rather let your thoughts surface and allow them to lead you intuitively. After | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| so to speak, and only rises to the surface on rare occasions during a lifetime. The other | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| does not allow the memory to reach the surface. As far as your question is concerned I | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to have the higher self always on the surface in all conditions of life. But it is | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| of the disharmony is not always on the surface. It may be buried deeper. Its origin may | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| has worn off, the doubts in you would surface again. You would say to yourselves: Perhaps the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| yourself about something that exists merely on the surface and has no root in you. Thus you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| I do not mean the satisfaction of your surface conscience: that is not enough. But if you | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| a question of letting it come to the surface. As with willpower, here too, it is a | 21 THE FALL |
| so that they do not show on the surface. For do not believe that something you are | 21 THE FALL |
| well as every occurrence that is on the surface. The next phase -- and these phases often | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to let your lower self come to the surface, so that you can actually become aware of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| emotional self before it is completely on the surface. To be in a hurry to change these | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| subconscious mind and sends only subterfuges to the surface. For even those of you who are sincerely | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| very much there and very much on the surface. You have to make this distinction very clearly | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| in your life that brought them to the surface. In the right kind of spiritual progress, everything | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| simply do not display their will on the surface because of other, psychologically conflicting trends. But within | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| does not mean that the motive on the surface is annulled. But the other part that is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| trance would suffice to bring it to the surface, the discrepancy between the trance state and the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| your decisions properly. Do not remain on the surface level; you will have to dig deeper into | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| afraid to let the doubts rise to the surface because you assume that they might change your | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| not have an opportunity to come to the surface. At the same time, the parents may also | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| urges, trends, and leanings should come to the surface at what period. Other fluids are prepared and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| very little outer challenge to come to the surface. The outer challenges are provided for in the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| or faults are prepared for raising to the surface. Some are supposed to remain hidden, to be | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| unexpected and apparently quite new comes to the surface. Everyone is shocked and disappointed. From now on | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| been accomplished on trends that were on the surface, other trends, left deeper embedded by the spirit | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| needs. Thus different problems will come to the surface at different times. Be watchful and adjust your | 36 PRAYER |
| goes by. Each point may be at the surface for a certain period -- for a few | 36 PRAYER |
| to accept life's terms can be on the surface or be hidden, as is the case with | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| inner problems of the particular person to the surface. This is the basis on which families and | 38 IMAGES |
| methods to bring these unconscious images to the surface. This, my friends, is the only way to | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| reactions. By letting your emotions come to the surface and putting them into concise words, instead of | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| a merely simple fault which is on the surface. It comes out of the image. Can you | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| life, certain problems are left closer to the surface in the fluidal body. And according to these | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| It would be something so much on the surface that you could very easily discover it. In | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| image by helping to draw it to the surface while the conclusions are being formed and are | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the main image has clearly come to the surface, by little but significant recognitions that are an | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| I would say: Examine yourself. Go below the surface layers of your conscious reasoning and explanations for | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| for many other facets never manifest in your surface personality. How then can you know more deeply | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| up the nucleus of conflicting desires by reasonable surface desires, while the conflicts ferment underneath. And since | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| many of your hidden emotions come to the surface. Remember that the more conscious your hidden emotions | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| of their being -- in contrast to the surface manifestations of more primitive persons. When errors of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| errors of selfishness and egotism exist on the surface, the repercussions occur outwardly and directly. The destructive | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| happens first by recognizing where, deep below the surface of your consciousness, your emotions are self- oriented | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| no less harmful if hidden and covered by surface reactions that appear as quite the opposite. So | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| uncovering through self-search and not to your intellectual surface knowledge. Try to apply all this to the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of something within yourself because -- on a surface level -- you have known the same thing | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| feels guilty about it, if not on the surface, where you have been affected by intellectual influences | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| good as it appears to be on the surface nor as bad -- as full of hate | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| this is the way emotions argue below the surface. So the circle closes where it started, and | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| circle. After the emotions have come to the surface, you will be able to think them through | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| allow wrong conclusions and images, rising to the surface due to the work you have done so | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| consciousness; nurse the awareness of them in your surface consciousness, but realize that they are false. Formulate | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| They should reach the emotions coming to the surface as you work, which otherwise you could not | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| and should not live so much on the surface, in the outer world. To find God, I | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| material which is ready to come to the surface, the greater your relief will be when it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| begin with that which actually is on the surface and not at all unconscious. You merely did | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| intellectually, my dear. It is rarely on the surface, since all images are of an unconscious nature | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| bring what is in the unconscious to the surface. Strangely enough, in a very distorted way, the | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| first glance. Those who judge only on the surface will not find either truth or reality. Many | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| however, you are conditioned to judge on the surface. In this particular respect many of you refuse | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| refuse to let go of judging on the surface because you still hope that the world of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| such findings, you have not even scratched the surface. You may have found some contributing factor, but | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| has to be allowed to come to the surface. Then, and then only, can the true personality | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| and unselfish acts in this light. On the surface these acts certainly appear to be unselfish, yet | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| more a hidden creativity can come to the surface, and also that the way in which a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the conscious wish for health remained on the surface. But actually two conflicting desires battle with one | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the compulsion and urgency that appear on the surface, you are bound to find the same uncertainty | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| allowing your true emotions to come to the surface will you finally reach the point where your | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| you experience, the deductions you make with the surface logic of the intellect which ignores spiritual and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the spirit, how certain conflicts remain on the surface of the unconscious mind which the environment brings | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| suppressed. Only when these flaws come to the surface and you understand that they are based on | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| to bring the suppressed positive tendencies to the surface and view them in the proper light, just | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| into awareness what needs to come to the surface. Many current movements teach thought-control by suppression. As | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| They suppress the real reaction, while on the surface pseudo-calm prevails. Only what you really feel can | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| know how. If such emotions simmer on the surface, try to translate them into meaning, and you | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| picture. Since you are aware only of the surface of your own motivations, and therefore do not | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| when more of your images come to the surface, you will clearly understand why you have them | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| your real self which slowly rise to the surface after you have banned them in fear for | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| Scriptures have a much deeper meaning than their surface suggests. If you grasp this deeper meaning you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self, although it is not always on the surface. But you no longer need these terms now | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| With a child, so much is on the surface. The trained eye will discover where wrong concepts | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may take ever so long to reach the surface where, finally, it can reflect the light and | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fresh spring, it does not come to the surface by itself nor by the smiting of a | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| get love. When this tendency is on the surface, you may tell yourself that it is your | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of development and growth. For some it will surface sooner, for others later, but it must come | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| what it is that you fear. Go beneath surface reasoning, surface desires and fears which are, in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| is that you fear. Go beneath surface reasoning, surface desires and fears which are, in reality, but | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| in the other types is quite on the surface. The other types may even be proud of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| it difficult to discover what is beneath the surface. Only very truthful insight into the real nature | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| values and accomplishments, and so on. On the surface this looks, indeed, like a very holy picture | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| to deal with what is quite on the surface. But you have become so accustomed to examining | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| it hardly occurs to you to examine the surface reactions and behavior patterns. To experience defeat in | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| find, even though it is partly on the surface. You look away from it because it is | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and does not allow it to fully reach surface awareness. Therefore the negative feeling has to be | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| emotional reactions are allowed to come to the surface with all their childishness and irrationality, without your | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| not allow the truth to come to the surface. I cannot emphasize strongly enough that to recognize | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| strong repressed emotions. These have to reach the surface consciousness before they can be properly assimilated and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| absent. Just because something is not on the surface does not mean that severe effects are not | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and resent. Such resentments may not rise to surface awareness, but their undermining strength is bound to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| exist also. It may not be on the surface, but it must exist! There can be no | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| instrumental in bringing these unconscious conflicts to the surface. But so does the tendency of religion to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| with fearful obedience that is entirely on the surface and caused by the sickest motivations. QUESTION: I | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| increasingly necessary to allow all emotions to reach surface awareness, so as to understand these emotions and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| extreme crisis do these actual feelings reach the surface. Then you believe it is the crisis that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| allow the negative in you to reach your surface awareness, how can healthy, strong emotions fill your | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| find once you allow your emotions to reach surface awareness. Once you stop repressing your emotions, you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| learn to allow your emotions to come to surface awareness and then determine their significance, you will | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| discuss needs, but we touched only the very surface of this all-important subject. So let us go | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| process, rather than allowing your emotions to reach surface awareness, thereby finding the answers within yourself. Only | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of relinquishing is. Do not take a particular surface desire and sacrifice it in the mistaken idea | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| exploring your emotions, bringing repressed needs to the surface, and unrolling the inner process, while observing the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| advantage of the false solution pushes to the surface, but the personality is afraid of facing it | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| inner problem is supposed to come to the surface more and more. Before overall understanding of the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you. Allow your emotions to come to the surface and learn to cope with them. Understand their | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| become sufficiently aware, your confusions and conflicts will surface. Even before the confusion is cleared up, you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| stiffening. It may not always be on the surface. It can be provoked or caused, for instance | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| it also as destructive. Bring that to the surface, and then you can eliminate the error in | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of a sudden they have come to the surface again. And I'm becoming tired of myself in | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| necessity of letting your emotions come to the surface. If and when, in spite of all your | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| thing to profess a certain knowledge on the surface, and it is quite another to experience it | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| speak, and allow your feelings to reach the surface of your consciousness. This does not necessarily mean | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| by yourself and allow your true feelings to surface. When you review how you reacted to certain | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| going to sleep, the unconscious knowledge can reach surface awareness. Your entire striving on this earth sphere | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| aid in bringing your own knowledge to the surface. In other words, it is a combination of | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| how you have been hurt, although on the surface you may have a veneer of indifference. The | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| has allowed your ability to give love to surface, even though you may not yet be fully | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| this work to bring the emotions to the surface. Only then can they be dealt with properly | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| has to come out of repression and reach surface awareness in order for you to understand its | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| entirely devoid of emotions. They are on the surface, but never named, and their significance is never | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and their significance is never questioned. These few surface emotions will furnish sufficient material with which to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| these exercises, what was repressed reappears on the surface. So it is only a question of how | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| how much it may appear so on the surface. Often, people are basically ready to enter the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| undesirable aspect be, letting it float on the surface, you can observe it and learn to understand | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| allowing his actual feelings to come to the surface; by questioning them as to their reason for | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the individual's participation and willingness to penetrate the surface defenses; on his willingness to let go of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| intended teachings and ideals that reach merely the surface intellect. QUESTION: When we are angered or disturbed | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| in which apparently good relationships exist on the surface, but they are devoid of depth and inner | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| recognized as such if they come to your surface awareness, even justified expectations will cause problems for | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| have to be allowed to simmer on the surface, and have to be translated into concise meaningful | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| often unjustified guilts that smolder closer to the surface of the psyche. These little and unjustified guilts | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| not genuine. The ungenuine faith may, on the surface, appear very much like its genuine counterpart. Yet | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| impact of the contradictory attitudes is on the surface, it will be apparent that under this exaggerated | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| imprints, unable to regain the original printless, resilient surface. In the course of your work many of | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| is a round form, like a ball. The surface of the subtle body can have all the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the consistency of skin and flesh, but the surface of the subtle body of the soul has | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| quite obvious because your thoughts are on the surface; at other times it permeates you as a | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| may not be at all obvious on the surface. It is also necessary to look for negative | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| required to allow what is in you to surface. In fact, you waste a great deal of | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| and allow your hidden emotions to reach the surface. All human attitudes and feelings can be compared | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the dirt and residue float freely to the surface to be eliminated. The ever-regenerating water in its | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| when you allow the debris to reach the surface. When you begin to remove your blocks you | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| easy, even though many emotions may have reached surface awareness already. If you persevere, you will find | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| Let the negative emotions float freely to the surface, and then you have nothing to fear from | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| so that they can be lifted to the surface and evaluated. By this process you will understand | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| that could easily be dealt with on the surface of consciousness germinate and accumulate and create great | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| your unreasonable inner child to manifest on the surface. To the extent you can do so, you | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| childish selfishness. Let the irrational voice reach your surface awareness. View it with a little distance and | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| elements which are still hidden rise to the surface. Only when you are in a dynamic process | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| To put it differently: not only is the surface attitude, but the attitude of your entire being | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the no- current to appear strongly on the surface, less and less disguised, making it more and | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| possible for hitherto checked and repressed material to surface, if you express this purpose and desire it | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| it is important to draw them to the surface. So let us consider why one must be | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| remain obscure. The instant the more remote links surface, the effect is the same as with the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| period of incubation, of quiet growth beneath the surface, is longer than when you plant something that | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| reaction also has to be brought to the surface in order to dispel it and render it | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| to bring hitherto unconscious destructive material to the surface, the individual often feels as though an indwelling | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| All great spiritual truths seem contradictory on the surface. In order to perceive the unity behind such | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| of its initially disquieting emotions to reach your surface awareness. Go through this and see what will | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| best to find their negative desires. On the surface the majority of people cannot imagine how they | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| one time one direction is more on the surface and the other more submerged; at other times | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| In fact, you have only scratched the bare surface. It is often necessary that one work on | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| bad luck because they cannot see beneath the surface. Since these people refuse to conceive of spiritual | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| state can be liberated and brought to the surface only when the level of confusion and pain | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| of how much pain you feel in your surface consciousness. The difficulty of ridding yourself of destructiveness | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| cannot succeed by forcing it away with the surface will, without a deep comprehension of the forces | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| level may induce an angry over-assertion on the surface. When the meditation is directed into such channels | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| a deep guilt that often manifests on the surface as unjustified guilts you cannot give up. The | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| only one of them may predominate on the surface. For example, just because you fear your cruelty | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| troubles stand unexamined, preferring to stay on the surface, never reaching the nucleus of the disturbance. The | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| unconscious material is. It is quite on the surface, only most people prefer to gloss over it | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| an unconscious level and what remains on the surface is a vague feeling of being unacceptable, without | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| manifest outwardly at all. In fact, on the surface you may totally lack self-assertion. Your inability or | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| union, are bad and dangerous comes to the surface more directly. This is good, for it permits | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| you most strenuously say yes to on the surface. It is not easy to get to this | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| false structure, the greater the discrepancy between the surface and the underlying emotions. The greater the outer | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| and yet, at times, suddenly. Only when all surface layers and all contradictory trends of consciousness have | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| use, so that when impulses come to the surface, they dominate. Will and reason are underdeveloped and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| safe to allow primitive, destructive feelings to the surface without being compelled into action by them. The | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the strength to let them come to the surface. This is so much better than denying and | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| to it. On the conscious level this will surface in any number of projected fears, which have | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| destructively cannot eliminate its cause. Yet on the surface, it is understandable to say, Why should I | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| experience of the frustration can bring to the surface the emotions that cause it: the fear of | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| is just as rigid a no as the surface, urgent, yes. The surface urge is just as | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| a no as the surface, urgent, yes. The surface urge is just as much a hindrance as | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| is deeply experienced. Too much ego on the surface often indicates an inner weakness of ego. Conversely | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| of ego. Conversely, a weak ego on the surface always means that under the surface the ego | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| on the surface always means that under the surface the ego is too rigidly upheld. The Lever | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| The vague feeling of being undeserving that may surface when confronting the self deeply should not be | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| contradictory wishes, hidden fears, and negative desires will surface. When they are recognized, they can be reconciled | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| number of contradictory will currents short-circuit on the surface, manifesting as a lack of awareness or numbness | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| awareness or numbness. Consciousness is diminished on the surface but continues to be active below the surface | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| surface but continues to be active below the surface. Its products manifest as tangible life experiences and | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| desires, beliefs, and the inner knowing to the surface so that life circumstances appear in their true | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| already, and needs only to be allowed to surface like the sun coming out from behind the | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| the energy of the subtle bodies penetrates the surface body. We have often spoken about the fact | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| For many, closeness is too taxing. On the surface this seems related to how difficult others are | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| become. The more the split comes to the surface, the less painful it is and the less | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| currents, the conflicting sides that remain below your surface consciousness? If you let yourself become conscious of | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| -- the total consciousness, including the one below surface awareness. When I say immediately, I mean that | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| gained have revealed a greater reality beyond the surface of life. And, in spite of individual damaging | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| even pretends to be, so that on the surface of consciousness the ego becomes almost convinced of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| almost convinced of being the idealized self-image. This surface conviction is constantly counteracted by the unconscious knowledge | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| inklings of disturbance and negativity manifest on the surface. But a tremendous amount of honesty is required | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| manage also to deny -- on a superimposed surface level -- what you long for. You dull | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| movements will bring those hidden impurities to the surface. It is up to the conscious personality to | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| As you allow them to simmer on the surface, you institute the process I just described. Welcome | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| but which are eventually bound to reach the surface and create an experience. It is always easier | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| in turn require defenses. The defenses make the surface of soul substance hard and brittle, therefore much | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| feelings underground again. They must remain on the surface and be seen for what they are until | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and good can be seen just beneath the surface. According to divine law this deeper good is | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| harsh soul movement may not be on the surface, as it is when a strong, pushy, forcing | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| but it is still there, hidden behind the surface acceptance. Everything seems to hinge on how you | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| vicious. This awareness is not always on the surface, for people usually try to avoid what they | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| self that had previously not manifested on the surface. The more this happens, the more joyfully you | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| one another. As these negativities come to the surface, often you still blind yourself to true reality | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| possible after you finally allow your negativities to surface, accept them, and take full responsibility for them | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| opposite attitude. Both facets should be on the surface so you can become fully conscious of them | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| merely bring out what needs to reach the surface in order to be dissolved. That is part | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| makes them capable of perceiving more than the surface, can observe very clearly the highly potent energy | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| objects and entities are separated only on the surface level. But within and beneath that surface level | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the surface level. But within and beneath that surface level there is a constant interaction. I started | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| its meaning, what will inevitably come to the surface is something like this: I do not trust | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| to do with a meaningful reality beyond the surface. This is why you become depressed, anxious, confused | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| inner negative nucleus. When you go beyond the surface manifestation -- the problematic life situation -- you | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| development, evil is so strongly concentrated on the surface that it is completely unaware of the divine | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| self-search and self-confrontation, but lazily accepted on the surface in order to avoid the labor and risks | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| old value system, which functions merely from the surface, from immediate little emotions, from the narrow view | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| try to establish the longed-for balance with the surface personality, the result will be a flat, unsatisfying | 228 BALANCE |
| long as appearance values hold sway underneath the surface, you constantly eat away at your self-esteem. Deep | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| you, criticize you in any way, on the surface you may be very indignant, defensive and argumentative | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| with the level that is most on the surface and ignore any other ongoing movement and reality | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| of the next level that swims to the surface. I will now give the force, and then | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| the perfection of your inner being, they must surface first. But beyond them, the most positive, creative | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| consistently, an awareness of self-hate rises to the surface. At first, this growing awareness does not include | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| another. If they do not come to the surface, they lie hidden and therefore have more power | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| sight or sound. Thinking of your desires and surface longings, your emphasis in prayer may be on | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| as you allow them to rise to the surface, you will know their exact meaning, as I | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| When unconscious, irrational feelings were lifted to the surface, many of you were terrified; some friends left | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| in truth and when you go beneath the surface to deeper levels. See this new society you | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| most prevalent attitude today, at least on the surface, is for Jews to tolerate Christians, and vice | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| to tolerate Christians, and vice versa. Underneath the surface, you need to find those areas where you | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| enough to voice such good intentions on the surface of your being. The decision must penetrate the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| the same token, what appears bad on the surface might turn out to be a very good | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| your guilt that is frequently not allowed to surface. You keep it down by strengthening the destructive | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| occasions it is possible to go beyond the surface and see deeper connections that reveal the perfect | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| connections obvious. Time brings them eventually to the surface. But in how many instances, in small issues | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| are meant to bring your deficits to the surface of your consciousness; they prevent you from ignoring | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| ways of giving may temporarily work on the surface, but as your deficits increase inwardly you cover | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| only for so long. Eventually they must all surface, so that a new order can be established | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| manage to clutter up their inner being with surface thoughts, with outer or inner noise, to avoid | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| in the most remote manifestations which on the surface appear to have nothing whatever to do with | 254 SURRENDER |
| of these possibilities, of incarnatory processes reaching the surface only now -- or at a later period | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| may still be accepted, may be allowed into surface consciousness. Old age is a slow withdrawal of | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| people--or groups of people--are at war on the surface. They hate and accuse each other. They wish | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| agree. They know that what occurs on the surface serves the common good, serves truth and love | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| no sense, or hypocritically obeys them on a surface level that fails to reach the inner person | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| through crises that will bring them to the surface. Once the force of the new influx is | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| that fails to bring the truth to the surface. This undermines communication--and hence love and union. You | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| the untruthfulness. Sometimes it is right on the surface and it will become clear to you after | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| you can bring it close enough to the surface level to recognize it. Such areas were not | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| recent lecture. Once the untruthfulness is on the surface and you are able and willing to see | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |