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| the person's development. A higher developed individual's negative traits weigh as heavily as the criminal tendencies of | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| which can have different effects on these common traits of the lower self. The qualities of the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| is merely one instance; there are many other traits and tendencies that go through the same process | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| following this path of self-development. Not only those traits which are commonly called faults are a hindrance | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the core of their lower self, and these traits, among other things, were responsible for their one-sidedness | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| influence, and most of all, of course, personality traits and individual character. Often, no two people will | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| current of courage. Otherwise, if certain other character traits and outer circumstances combine, their rebellion will be | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| total of your conscious and unconscious trends and traits. It is that which governs you and brings | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| change your life. Without exception, there are common traits in all images. Only the relative proportions of | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| all images. Only the relative proportions of the traits vary from individual to individual. In every image | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| other obstructive forces. More primitive persons manifest these traits outwardly and direct them toward the outer world | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| You may find in your unconscious a few traits so completely contrary to what you otherwise are | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| female, or contains masculine and feminine currents and traits. Of course, this enters into it, but it | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| believed. She feared that open acknowledgement of these traits would cost her the man's love. This went | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| have learned to do with the suppressed negative traits. Apart from these individual and very personal suppressions | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| or four may be actually similar to some traits in the recreator's parent. The most outstanding would | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| Search deep within your inner conflicts for these traits, even if on other levels of your personality | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| oneself, followed by the reconstruction of certain personality traits. This is not easy, but it is the | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| loving person does not love him for the traits that are embedded in the image and that | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| senses another quality behind and apart from the traits that are meant to make the image work | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| arrogant, rejecting, superior, and fearful. All these are traits which do not inspire love. Only by unraveling | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| claims, destructive defense mechanisms, together with all the traits of the idealized self-image, and the various pseudo-solutions | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| layers are not your real self, but artificial traits you have cultivated for so long that they | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| unfortunately, singularly affected you. Your seeing only certain traits and leaving out others because you were not | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| real. Everything you have experienced from those limited traits in them which to you constitute the entire | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the whole human being. You cannot understand those traits that have hurt and affected you unless you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| this as a defense of one's own undesirable traits, or doing it in truth and for the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| as their overall development, their personality and character traits may be different. Their reactions after the act | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| this parent may be better off despite unlovable traits. In short, this entire preoccupation, though very often | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| is a conglomeration of all your attitudes and traits. It is the greatest error possible, and one | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| impaired determination must definitely affect all other personality traits and attitudes. If you have difficulty in relating | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fights against it by summoning all her masculine traits as weapons against the femininity that she fears | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| longer suppressed. Hence, one cannot say that infantile traits cease to exist when a person becomes an | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| all human beings possess both masculine and feminine traits. But there is still so much lack of | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| one's own masculinity and femininity and assuming the traits of the very sex one fights against. However | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| pseudo-solution you have chosen depends on individual character traits, on circumstances and early influences. Whatever they are | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| pain on the self and on others. The traits that impede coping with frustration are greed, self-centeredness | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| abstinence in order to avoid revealing the negative traits. He thinks that in this way he can | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| angry, exclusive, negative, tense, and stubborn. All these traits defeat the life principle and the pleasure stream | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| own negativity -- your fears, anger, rage, the traits you do not like -- in a rational | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| danger of self-indulgence and self-justification for the destructive traits that exist in all human beings, no matter | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| you confront, accept, and admit those negative, destructive traits, weaknesses, little selfishnesses, cruelties, and vanities that often | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of yourself. You may dislike yourself for some traits and attitudes, but this specificity may be even | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| self-disdain, without being able to pinpoint the specific traits you dislike in yourself. Once you feel, however | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| self-justification, because you believe that admitting your undesirable traits means that you must dislike and reject your | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| in the conviction that life and your personality traits are static and must remain that way. Your | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| happiness because I, possibly quite justifiably, dislike certain traits in me? But don't you then also believe | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| But don't you then also believe that these traits mark and define your person? That is the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| why you so inexplicably hold on to destructive traits. Many of my friends have reached the awareness | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| whole story, my friends. Underneath all these personality traits you believe are fixed, final things, the fluid | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| being a divine expression, no matter what the traits may be. Then, and only then, can you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| and only then, can you really transform these traits. Paradoxical as this may seem, the total self-rejection | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| you know that, no matter how ugly the traits may be, you will not despair about being | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| have difficulties accepting and meeting your undesirable destructive traits. If you truly look at them in a | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| acceptance. You will be able to see the traits you hate and still not lose sight of | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| down in black and white. Look at those traits when they are written down. Then feel into | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| I really believe that I must be these traits all my life? Do I believe I have | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| are confronted with some of your undesirable attitudes, traits, and characteristics. This reaction must be understood in | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| yourself to realize that every one of these traits is an energy current, originally good and beautiful | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| stagnant. Articulate clearly the insight that these ugly traits, whatever they may be, are a power that | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and others around you. The list of negative traits could be extended, but that is unnecessary, for | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| may appear odd to claim that these three traits are more responsible for evil than the evil | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| are more responsible for evil than the evil traits themselves, including spite, cruelty, envy, hostility, and selfishness | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| I do not want to have such ugly traits in me. Truth, however, requires both flexibility and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| make increasing joy and self-expression possible. Without these traits, I must remain deprived and in conflict. The | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| No matter how evil and unacceptable any specific traits in you may be, no matter how undesirable | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| you imagine for a moment that many familiar traits, which you have always assumed could only exist | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| overall consciousness? It does not matter whether these traits be good or evil, such as, for example | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| individuals who observe their own inner process. Positive traits and constructive aspects of consciousness are always harmonious | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| over-severe conscience which annihilates you for your negative traits. Or are you perhaps the destructive demon within | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the above-mentioned aspects. You are neither your negative traits nor your self-punishing superimposed conscience, nor even your | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your self-punishing superimposed conscience, nor even your positive traits. Even though you have managed to integrate the | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you truly want to give up these negative traits or even fully face and investigate them when | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| apparently shameful liabilities, has experienced how acknowledging negative traits creates a new freedom. Why is this so | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| situation when you identify yourself with the ugly traits than when you identify them. The moment you | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| tremendous overall importance of recognizing the distorted, demonic traits. You will take full responsibility for them which | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Your chosen attitude toward your demonic, undeveloped, undesirable traits is the key to expanding your consciousness. You | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| cause the negative state. The worse these inner traits are, the greater the guilt and the self-evasion | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| in turn, exists because of destructive attitudes and traits one does not wish to face and give | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| rebellion, malice, hate, pride -- all of these traits must make you feel guilty. Such guilt may | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| I shall show how the ego uses these traits to avoid self- transcendence. The ego fears losing | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| change, against expanding into new spiritual territory. These traits express the attitude, I will stay where and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| about the self. No matter how ugly the traits may be that gradually ooze out of you | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and goodness, as well as those negative, destructive traits. This acknowledgement will eliminate hate, either for yourself | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| were purely a matter of taste, or inborn traits such as being born with blue eyes or | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to identify with, and also to the particular traits we decide to emulate or to discard. The | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| as to be able to recognize the desired traits which can then be used as further road | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Quite the contrary: the emulated ways of being, traits, and attitudes are adapted to the uniqueness of | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Strong rejection of a parent, or of particular traits and attitudes in the parent, is an indication | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| their positive aspects. The child will recognize what traits in the parent, and later in other authority | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| be used for its life plan, and what traits are to be rejected. The child can do | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| true exemplary figure inspires you to visualize similar traits and attitudes dormant within your deeper self which | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| figures or at least to some of their traits. They cause you to be blind because your | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| that is foreign to your nature. Basic universal traits exist and are expressed in different ways by | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| is never justified, no matter how ugly the traits and attitudes may be that you have hidden | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| with his or her covert, dominant, and manipulative traits. They are inevitably two sides of the same | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| divine self which will ultimately overcome whatever negative traits I feel remorseful about. The I that dislikes | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| many thoughts, intentions, actions, feelings, attitudes and expressed traits that have a long history. The present moment | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| but mostly only in general terms. The negative traits are nothing but distortions of positive divine expressions | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| be very helpful if we work on particular traits and aspects that you present to me, so | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| very beneficial if you present me with some traits in which you can see only the distorted | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| severely disturbed human being who exhibits some evil traits, but who already has a developed conscience and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| early periods of humanity. Since then the same traits and attitudes have remained embedded in the consciousness | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| us look at some of the qualities and traits manifesting in both states. The motive -- if | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| for omnipotence and magic, with all the negative traits that are inherent in this claim. If you | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| including the variety and subtlety with which these traits can manifest, then you are exactly where you | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| others, by excusing and justifying your own lower-self traits and all the more severely heaping accusations on | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| strong resistance -- to face not only lower-self traits, but also their consequences and painful effects on | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| -- pointless, and only serves sensationalism. Only when traits and attitudes are under discussion is this of | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| the soul, or the person with all his traits and all the special combinations of attitudes that | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |