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| is the ego which erects the wall of blindness and separation around the soul. The higher the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| been overcome. Since this separateness is nothing but blindness and lack of understanding, it must necessarily diminish | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| person has perhaps reacted to you only from blindness, ignorance, and a great inner insecurity, erroneously attempting | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| themselves even more. Therefore they will, in their blindness and as their only defense, put an even | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| lower self has chosen until now in its blindness. If you give up your ego in this | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| beauty to ugliness, light to darkness, wisdom to blindness, love to hatred, fear, or egotism, and union | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| clearly, without any false motives and excuses and blindness, for a while. 2) This will also teach | 21 THE FALL |
| soul, too many evil desires and too much blindness to fulfill the necessary conditions. That is why | 22 SALVATION |
| human being. Wherever there are faults, weaknesses and blindness, corresponding spheres come into existence. Wherever you are | 22 SALVATION |
| difference of development among different people creates misunderstandings, blindness, and so on. This very difficulty can be | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this one respect because of evasion. Evasion is blindness, and blindness is the contrary of light or | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| respect because of evasion. Evasion is blindness, and blindness is the contrary of light or enlightenment. There | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| individual soul, and as long as there is blindness caused through lack of self- knowledge, and as | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| I am explaining to you. Fight the temporary blindness by training your thoughts to delve into the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| how free you are of resentment and of blindness. In some cases it would be beneficial if | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| and hurt you, but your own past deliberate blindness. In such a crisis, the blindness is what | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| past deliberate blindness. In such a crisis, the blindness is what deep down you resent most of | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| on and on will they gradually lose such blindness. Yet, despite the existence of such currents, development | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| matter how unintentional -- out of your imperfection, blindness, and ignorance is justified guilt that you should | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| importance of love. These obstacles arise from the blindness in which you are encased and from your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| and from your lack of understanding of the blindness of others. The blindness of others hurts you | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of understanding of the blindness of others. The blindness of others hurts you, and in your own | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of others hurts you, and in your own blindness you are unaware of how much and how | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| other person. If you can keep this mutual blindness in mind, my dear ones, it will constitute | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| you will be aware of how your own blindness, and not the other one's, keeps you in | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| you may begin to look into your own blindness. You always make the mistake of battling against | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| make the mistake of battling against the other's blindness and lack of understanding instead of trying to | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| more in a wall of separateness, egocentricity and blindness. These qualities make you commit deeds and think | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| You will free yourself from the chains of blindness and automatically increase your understanding for others -- | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| but sometimes you do not. Your self-will and blindness stand in the way. The fact that your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| actually never is. Believing that is the human blindness of this earth sphere, due to restricted sight | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| other words, you seek the wrong remedy in blindness, ignorance, and immaturity. You can be quite certain | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| them or to stagnate, remaining in the old blindness. I have shown you again how important it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| some corner of your being to remain in blindness, grace will not be accessible to you. But | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have conflicts; you do not get over your blindness so quickly. But the conflicts would have more | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| It will help to remove remaining ignorance and blindness. Knowledge you have gained will always be yours | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| weaknesses, your misconceptions and illusions, your limitations and blindness. God in you can manifest only by way | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the other hand, your lack of assimilation causes blindness. Your blindness in turn must create blindness toward | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hand, your lack of assimilation causes blindness. Your blindness in turn must create blindness toward you. I | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| causes blindness. Your blindness in turn must create blindness toward you. I have said that before in | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| side gradually develop and grow out of its blindness. But as long as you do not reconcile | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| though it may be often utterly inadequate. Your blindness encourages the childish greed to reach for immediate | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you must, as a first step, accept the blindness, ignorance, and imperfection that still exist in you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| You might have passed it by in utter blindness. Delayed reaction is certainly progress compared with no | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| are blind to your own reactions can the blindness gradually vanish. And as you become more aware | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| them as human beings in their contradictions, their blindness, their often conflicting, mixed motivations? Does the person | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| The hurt inflicted upon you, due to their blindness, irresponsibility, and undiscovered powerful currents of frustration and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| understanding and subsequently real love and honor. In blindness, you cannot respect and love when almost all | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| is so because this current derives out of blindness, and it must make you blind. Since this | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| think someone else holds. All this is inner blindness which leads to outer selfishness and to separateness | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| life. Only by conquering your own resistance and blindness, your lack of awareness of yourself, will you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| asked. It is so confused, contains so much blindness and lack of awareness of reality, it shows | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| path of self-finding. You cannot be. Condoning and blindness to what exists is not the answer. The | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you remove the shackles of your unconscious, voluntary blindness, the more will you experience the truth of | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| be as responsible for it as their own blindness when the world and others appear to them | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| either case the very same attitudes may prevail: blindness, laziness of thinking and feeling, selfishness, egocentricity, cruelty | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| in different words. It is the human being's blindness and error to believe that if you love | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| if you want to grow out of your blindness and enslavement. Of course, in some aspects of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in every possible respect. Opposing it out of blindness, ignorance, stubbornness and fear is bound to cramp | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of being. But where there is error and blindness, fear must come into existence and consequently this | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| should not be squashed. But humanity in its blindness and false modesty does not understand. It misinterprets | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| discipline and letting go of oneself occur through blindness, weakness, fear, lack of inner freedom, and error | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| their intensity because you have displaced them, this blindness to them must make you equally blind to | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| holding back which are a result of your blindness and unwillingness to objectively evaluate others and yourself | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the life force. It consists rather of ignorance, blindness, distortion, and lack of awareness. Ignoring truth, it | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| or rejecting soul movement that leads to greater blindness, error, and half-truths, and puts the emphasis on | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| what they observed. Due to your self-inflicted, fearful blindness, you are paralyzed; you do not move where | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| But when you go on and on in blindness, you will come to the point where you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| cause and effect in your immediate life, where blindness in this respect still prevails, the greater your | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| that impede coping with frustration are greed, self-centeredness, blindness, and fear. The person who believes himself enlightened | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| infant, striving for its pleasure, is in its blindness incapable of tolerating frustration because it ignores future | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| a special reward after you have overcome your blindness, disconnectedness, and difficulties. You must become a finished | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| to erroneous ideas, destructive reactions and feelings; spiritual blindness, unhappiness, and suffering followed. Each successive distancing from | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| emotions. This still exists in the soul: suffering, blindness and hopelessness produce loveless feelings, selfishness, and often | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Their suffering made them too blind because their blindness led them into suffering. Thus, they indulged their | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| being victimized. Choosing to feel victimized only increases blindness and makes us retain the destructive attitude that | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| to be unobstructed, but where the blocks, the blindness, the imagined helplessness persist, you cannot contact your | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the workings of your mind, its self-involvement, its blindness to itself and its tendency to get lost | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| and greed. Both fear and greed stem from blindness and breed further blindness. Greed wishes to amass | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and greed stem from blindness and breed further blindness. Greed wishes to amass selfishly when this is | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and of facing up to one's own stubborn blindness about the self. It is also important to | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| varied. One of them is, for example, materialistic blindness, where only what is seen and touched exists | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| endeavor, it must deal with this kind of blindness. The egotistical infant's antisocial desires and claims, convictions | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| This frequent occurrence is entirely due to your blindness to yourself and your resistance to change. When | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| undesirable parts in order to remove the self-imposed blindness. You will find again and again that such | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| used to force yourself to be good. The blindness, compulsion, and the artificial concept of life that | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| as a reality leads to wishful thinking, further blindness, and the denial of the self; it decreases | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| must make a deliberate effort to remove the blindness that makes you believe the negative experience is | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| of understanding of what is going on, the blindness with which people are involved in the struggle | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the struggle, and their deliberate perpetuation of that blindness. To the degree that struggle and tension exist | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| forget and become involved again in the old blindness and its conditioned reflexes. But this need not | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| principle of Do not resist evil. It requires blindness not to see that children actually have this | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| If you lack faith because you live in blindness and negation and are therefore cut off from | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| vision and is therefore unavoidably painful. Resistance, matter, blindness, spells dualism, separation, evil, and suffering -- these | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| developed. But there also exist in you distortion, blindness, ill will, resistance, evil. The human being who | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| of saying what you see? Where does your blindness toward yourself inevitably blind you toward the other | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to until now. This ongoing refusal and self-imposed blindness remove you to such an extent from the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| its separated state, is in conflict because of blindness and limitation. The ego is not one, it | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| in-built protective mechanism, negativity closes the perceptive organs: blindness, deafness, dumbness, and numbness set in. The only | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| grope with the manifestation of others. In your blindness to another person's negativity, or its exact nature | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your inner reality, when you are still in blindness and ignorance about yourself and therefore commensurately about | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| this will not matter. The resulting and inevitable blindness, be it only momentary, must present experiences that | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| that the disturbance is a reflection of some blindness. The blindness lies often in a totally different | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| disturbance is a reflection of some blindness. The blindness lies often in a totally different direction from | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| happy life. Being in the human shell of blindness, you have to battle against the as yet | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| degree is really all that matters, for some blindness, as I said, is quite inevitable. The more | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| to popular notion, implies a perpetual state of blindness, of not knowing or comprehending, of groping in | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| of such a crisis can become clear. The blindness that is unable to perceive the oneness of | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| that seemed divergent. The pain created by the blindness of the undeveloped state becomes its own medicine | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| make it into a negative manifestation. In this blindness you contract about your contractions, as it were | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| awaiting you. You are too cramped up in blindness and fear. You must learn to trust -- | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| another human being by questionable accusations, ill will, blindness or stubbornness; if you refuse to give him | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are greater than necessary or desirable, fanaticism and blindness develop exactly as they did at the opposite | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| own community life. Often, there still exists a blindness to self-exposure and to the exposure of others | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |