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two, where in this respect a neglect and underdevelopment -- and therefore deviation in another sense -- 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
their unfulfillments are primarily emotional. But such emotional underdevelopment may also manifest on other levels, so that 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
ego seeks a false medicine against its own underdevelopment. For example, rather than visualizing yourself in a 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
 
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of proportion. You may exaggerate one thing and underestimate another. But a person who is detached from 31 SHAME
is not so. For in the moment you underestimate yourself you cannot possibly perceive the other person 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
at all. It may be rather that you underestimate your values, your rights, your entire person. You 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
within yourself, anxious and frightened -- when you underestimate your values -- it must be because of 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
much more free. I ask you not to underestimate this topic. You are now all profoundly enough 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
every word whether thinking it or speaking. You underestimate your own power when you feel distrustful of 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
that is. If you insult yourself because you underestimate yourself and your power, you must harm and 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
how strong your own spirit is. You constantly underestimate and believe yourself to be much weaker and 254 SURRENDER
 
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very important to recognize. It is still vastly underestimated. In order to become capable of facing your 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
more destructive indirectly. This phenomenon is very much underestimated. All this can be avoided if the full 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
inherent in thoughts and thought processes is totally underestimated by most human beings. Hence, your processes for 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
about the human capacity to create, an astoundingly underestimated potentiality. Your creative ability is infinitely greater than 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
of the word is immensely important and vastly underestimated. You believe it does not matter what you 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
is courage. The role of courage is often underestimated. In fact, most people assume that spiritual people 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA
 
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resolved yet. The immature psyche always fluctuates between underestimation and overestimation. Neither is in reality. Only by 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
afraid of loving. The second misunderstanding is the underestimation of the self and the consequent inferiority feelings 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
represent elements hostile to you personally. Therefore your underestimation of yourself forces you into a hostile role 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
actions and reactions. The two interrelated tendencies of underestimation of the self and misinterpretation of reality create 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
soul areas which are entirely free from misconception, underestimation of self, illusion, fear, and other destructive conditions 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
 
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your attitude, and therefore your feelings too, will undergo a subtle change and you will become more 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
for self-development. Without it, no one would ever undergo the noble fight, my friends, against one's lower 31 SHAME
Your outer opinions do not even have to undergo a drastic revision. They may essentially remain the 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
a totality, reaches this state, it too will undergo an identical change. The earth sphere itself will 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
feelings, intuition, spontaneous thoughts and inspiration, creative processes, undergo their law of growth as does any other 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
new civilization. You are also called upon to undergo your own purification work, your own growth process 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
this stage of development are not ready to undergo the necessary discipline of the work. But there 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
many directions, in many ways. The purification you undergo makes you truly capable of genuine leadership. Now 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
 
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add this: Only if the person in question undergoes the strictest process of self-development and purification, only 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of the spirit to be incarnated before it undergoes the birth process. It will mean a merit 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
all great religious teachings throughout the ages. Detachment undergoes a similar fate. People who are afraid of 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
personality grows harmoniously, the sexual drive changes. It undergoes the same process as general human development. The 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
vistas, experience and challenge. The physical system also undergoes crisis in growth. A teething baby experiences pain 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
creation -- from your point of view -- undergoes the same serial law that is the basis 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
and assimilated, you lose consciousness. A person who undergoes an operation goes through a similar process. In 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
of the stages of faith. A person's faith undergoes a development in itself. The highly developed, integrated 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
 
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rebellion and bitterness. The sadness that comes from undergoing such hardship will in some way help to 4 WORLD WEARINESS
explain why it frequently happens that a person undergoing psychoanalysis with a doctor who rigidly follows a 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
there being any wise and good purpose in undergoing all the hardships which He could not understand 22 SALVATION
outlook. We often observe that when you are undergoing a test your view of things is completely 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
Such pain is on the upward curve. Before undergoing an operation, for instance, first you feel the 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
 
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less developed souls, but in them it runs underground, so to speak, and only rises to the 4 WORLD WEARINESS
a little distance to yourself and see the underground workings of your reactions and the behavior of 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
they are driven out they continue their existence underground. The really selfish desires in your unconscious make 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
the only existing motivations. Find those which slumber underground. Take them out of hiding and view them 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
healthily detached, but your exaggerated need merely festers underground, covered by layers of false detachment, which is 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
degree, but inwardly they still exist. They smolder underground and do their damage. That is why it 101 THE DEFENSE
confusion and the distortions, you only drive them underground. If you do not resist them, you can 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
expectations are necessarily wrong, but because they smolder underground and cause a mutual strain as they clash 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
the inherent destructiveness is not eliminated: it festers underground while kept in check, so that no real 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
sense of sin do not drive these instincts underground, if the growing person cultivates mental and spiritual 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
while all the time they continue to exist underground. Through this lecture I have given you various 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
this eliminates it, the more it is driven underground, where it continues to do its work. And 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
urgency will not be fulfilled always heralds an underground no to the fulfillment. Absence of such a 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
necessary time of incubation, the inner, invisible growth underground. The more complicated the problem, the more deep-rooted 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
way: All the destructive emotions that are hidden underground create problems, hazards, difficulties that manifest in the 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
than the submissive solution, whose hostility always smolders underground. In whatever way you try to win, you 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
to this process. However, the more obstructions fester underground, the less will unfoldment be possible -- as 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
result is secret destructiveness and ruthless selfishness somewhere underground as far as emotional inclinations are concerned. These 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
as far as emotional inclinations are concerned. These underground tendencies may erupt at any moment. The greater 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
anger, rebellion. The more these must be kept underground so as not to disrupt the false structure 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
and counteract it -- not by pushing it underground again, but by using what you know. Talking 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
aspects of the self which may still smolder underground unmanifested but which are eventually bound to reach 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
and so on, should not drive these feelings underground again. They must remain on the surface and 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
alertness and awareness, so as not to push underground what must be dealt with. As you do 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
affect the relationship, poisoning it as if from underground. When you find your inner voice resisting the 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
or unwittingly, sets in motion. Listen to their underground noises, see their meaning, take enough distance from 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
your deficits and the inner bankruptcy that smolders underground. When you work with your helpers and peers 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
unaware of them and they can therefore exist underground causes the damaging effect. Therefore you need to 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
 
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time I explained that pride, self-will, and fear underlie all faults and are responsible for all unhappiness 31 SHAME
This is a telling sign that erroneous motives underlie such acts, possibly based on this common misconception 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
circles. Not only does the very same principle underlie what manifests in world politics, but is partly 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
misconceptions, negative intentionality, and destructive attitudes that must underlie such a blocked condition. You have to be 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD

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