| Weakens.....................24 | |
| of his or her own life but also weakens the forces of darkness, for the less they | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| recedes, but if properly done, the substance itself weakens. Otherwise, one may succeed in taking out certain | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| just that, it is a doubtful joy. It weakens you and is bound to make you fearful | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| superimposed parody of manhood. In another sense this weakens him even more. The goal must be the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| you discover that the original desire disappears or weakens with the absence of the unhealthy motives? You | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| self, which cannot really be trusted, and therefore weakens you. The freedom of shedding this burden cannot | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| any semblance of defeat. As your idealized self-image weakens, you will no longer command yourself to be | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| strength for the other person, or whether it weakens you. If it is the latter, you now | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| observing your unrealistic and immature emotions and reactions weakens their impact and begins a process of dissolving | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| Often when the two defenses intermingle, the unhealthy weakens and undermines the healthy one and diminishes its | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| have to live in such useless dependency, which weakens rather than strengthens you. Do not overlook your | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| are most ardently denied by the person who weakens himself due to the above-mentioned misconception. He substitutes | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| will is not used sufficiently, the ego gradually weakens. When the will is overexerted, it becomes so | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| varying degrees of cruel impulses. This, in turn, weakens the personality even more as guilt comes up | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| need is not fulfilled by the other also weakens your conviction that you have a right to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you want. Thus you have mutual forcing-currents. This weakens you and creates a host of negative emotions | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| feeling of comprehension, so that the obstructing mechanism weakens and the creative expansion process becomes stronger. The | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| worked out, the inner determination to be destructive weakens -- again in proportion to the understanding of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| unconscious material remains unattended, the pulsation lowers and weakens. The pulsation can be strong only to the | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| truth -- any truth -- the more one weakens oneself in some way, the more split off | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| attitude -- and genuine surrender. Genuine surrender never weakens the personality. It makes the positive ego healthier | 254 SURRENDER |
| responsibility for your life- creation. This immature part weakens you in a different way. Neither of these | 254 SURRENDER |
| the beat is vigorous, at other times it weakens. You can see how the same creative principle | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| sometimes prolonged crisis. Since crisis is painful, it weakens the pulse beat. Only as the new life | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Weakest.....................3 | |
| have their tasks within the plan, even the weakest. For them it may suffice and perhaps mean | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| be distorted and truth obscured by encouraging humanity's weakest, sickest, and most immature tendencies. It is those | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| voice of the higher self is often the weakest at the beginning, yet you need to listen | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Weakness....................170 | |
| will happen in an unhealthy way, out of weakness and fear, not out of strength. Actually some | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| but also physical manifestations in the body: tiredness, weakness, and even sickness can come from emotional short-circuits | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| not like to recognize and part with a weakness. One does not like to break a wrong | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| also because it can indulge in its particular weakness. On the other hand, you may be completely | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| The physically undernourished person will complain about tiredness, weakness, or other physical symptoms, without thinking about the | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| are unavoidable, will give you strength instead of weakness when you view yourself in that way daily | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| have never suspected to exist. All tiredness, all weakness, all weariness -- physical or emotional -- will | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| learning and thereby strengthen awareness of each individual's weakness. You who belong to the inner circle have | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| still there. If one person overcomes a single weakness, it constitutes the best help in the great | 21 THE FALL |
| most difficult for you to show having a weakness, then to show that is just what your | 21 THE FALL |
| accomplished something; perhaps they have overcome a particular weakness or a hatred against someone sharing their last | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| remedying something even more important than the actual weakness you are treating. You will learn the right | 31 SHAME |
| will also show you how every single fault, weakness, or imperfection is a direct hindrance to love | 31 SHAME |
| to relinquish only a tiny bit of your weakness, while expecting results that you would only be | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to many. So my friends, meditate upon this weakness from this angle: If I have no ambition | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| karmic debt, but will not overcome a certain weakness or solve a psychological problem. The time of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| allows you to cheat. If you overcome a weakness and begin to give some love, even before | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| in an idealized form. No, it is a weakness and often a bondage. Real love is freedom | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| or imperfection, omnipotence that promises security, or utter weakness it must avoid. The child can accept only | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of the law-upholder described here are rooted in weakness and fear. And an act or an attitude | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| an act or an attitude that comes from weakness and fear can never produce positive results. The | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| conscious and mature motivations based on strength, not weakness. Please, my friends, do not take the words | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of the law- upholder who is motivated by weakness and fear. As I said before, the vicious | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| act of strength out of an act of weakness. You will remain on the side of the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| perfect, if I have no faults and no weakness, if I am the best in everything I | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| be loved. The second conscience is motivated by weakness and fear. It bargains; it wants to avoid | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| flow back, provided you do not give in weakness, with a motive of proving something. If the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| free yourself from the yoke of your own weakness will have the same positive effect. Another motive | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| adopting the opposite opinion out of fear and weakness. Such opinions are often particularly rigid -- and | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| has decided but the result of their own weakness, unwillingness, or inability to make decisions. It is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to use a spiritual truth to rationalize the weakness and sickness of the soul. QUESTION: Is making | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| encourage her aggression and hostility; in man, his weakness and dependence. When healthy motives are muddled with | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| provided this development takes place without encouraging sick weakness and dependency. If woman develops those qualities in | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| weapon. Whether this weapon serves to cover either weakness and dependency in the man or rebellion and | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| nature, he is afraid and guilty of the weakness he senses in himself. On the other hand | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| understand that a woman should show signs of weakness so as to make the man strong? ANSWER | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| other things, the strength to overcome many a weakness for which you may despise yourself. It will | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| expressed the thought that prayer was indicative of weakness and he was therefore opposed to it. I | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a friend who feels prayer to be a weakness is, of course, an emotional, subconscious and illogical | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to ask because of pride is nothing but weakness. But to find out where and in what | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not ready to give up this fault or weakness, for reasons still hidden. Therefore you feel guilty | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in some way, you betray yourself by a weakness that is the result of a wrong conclusion | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| while the rejecter is strong. Therefore love becomes weakness, while aloofness is a sign of strength, at | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| be a distortion of love that causes the weakness. Or, the capacity for love is relatively real | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| is relatively real and other factors cause the weakness and afflict the love capacity. On the other | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| or her very act of giving as a weakness that deserves contempt. The betrayal is subtle, but | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| based on the following wrong conclusion: Love is weakness; withholding love and affection is strength. Since you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the part in your emotions where you ascribe weakness to acts of love and humility that are | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| demonstration of your true self are signs of weakness. Your true self is very often hidden behind | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the real you is the shame of imagined weakness, of being yourself with all the tenderness and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| often ignore the difference between love and sentimental weakness, love and masochistic dependency -- and thus distance | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| not being afraid of the supposed humiliation and weakness this desire implies, nor being afraid of feeling | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| for conformity with others; you will discover the weakness embodied in this trend and begin to understand | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| inadvertently hurt and disappoint you due to their weakness. You want to be understood and loved in | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for sickness is a degree of death. The weakness, resulting from tension and fear, indirectly creates a | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or one area of the personality with a weakness in the other. Many who do not pursue | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| by outwardly submitting to unjustified demands out of weakness and fear, but by constructive work of self-analysis | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the way of avoidance out of fear and weakness. This is one way of trying to deal | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of cringing fear, in a negative spirit of weakness. It is an altogether different choice to accept | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| not help because it is accepted out of weakness, which pollutes people's motives. Deeply sensing the untruth | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| intellectual superimposition to which you cling out of weakness and fear. Such a frank admission will give | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| faith that is embraced out of fear and weakness. So let us be careful and always keep | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| consoling faith to which you cling out of weakness and fear, but as actual experience. And you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| hurtful truths come from a personal fault or weakness, be it pride, vanity, self-will, rebellion, insecurity, frustration | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| cling to religious faith out of fear and weakness will come to the conclusion that one opposes | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| has accepted a belief out of fear and weakness, and not through inner knowledge. Another believes to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| self insists on and would consider it as weakness, vulnerability, and dependency in an unhealthy sense. Such | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| feels deeply ashamed and considers any emotion as weakness, whether it is an actual weakness or an | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| emotion as weakness, whether it is an actual weakness or an imagined one. Love and goodness are | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| one. Love and goodness are also considered as weakness and hypocrisy, not only in their distorted forms | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and appeasing type, but are ashamed of this weakness, as well as of the disappointment of not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| well as encouraging false religion, even if the weakness and clinging to authority happens to take a | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to see that it is responsible for your weakness, your helplessness, your enduring fear of life. But | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| need grace as a substitute for your own weakness, when you do not make an asset out | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| do not make an asset out of your weakness, then you will become strong. For a while | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| obedience and fear. It is so destructive, reinforcing weakness instead of strength. That kind of religion you | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life to offer a solution. This helplessness and weakness points to the immature, distorted part of the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| go is the strongest cause of self-contempt, guilt, weakness, unfulfillment, and many outer frictions and difficulties which | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| hardships. In pity, you merely project your own weakness onto another, seeing in that person your own | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and bear it, not in false humility and weakness, but in the strength of being able to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| ask where there may be feelings of helplessness, weakness, self-pity, of being subjected to the misery of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| a little later. If your pseudo-solution is submissiveness, weakness, helplessness and dependency as a means of having | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| reject a person due to a fault or weakness alone. If you observe life around you closely | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| which the mind has created out of fear, weakness, and wishful-thinking. He no longer acts because he | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| courage and self-assertion, when you submit in evident weakness. This pseudo-strength is, in reality and essence, just | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| accusations of others, or in a kind of weakness that allows others to exploit and take advantage | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| recognized the phenomenon of false guilt accompanied by weakness and paralysis and the subsequent impairment of inherent | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| produces false guilt, accompanied by a sense of weakness and ineffectiveness, and a lack of self-respect that | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| false guilts going through the paralysis and the weakness as well as searching in the areas where | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| who are weaker and destroy them. Therefore its weakness and resulting dependency are a necessity and a | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| makes him wrong. Consequently, he emasculates himself. His weakness causes self-contempt and resentment toward others, whom he | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| he blames for the unpleasant results of his weakness. Or, he expresses aggressiveness, and because he vaguely | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| they have a conflict between two unsatisfactory alternatives: weakness versus hostility. They cannot find their way out | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| to the above-mentioned misconception. He substitutes for the weakness and shame its concomitant -- an exaggerated strength | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| flexibility, adjustability, the ability to take advice with weakness, and rigid stubbornness with strength. He constantly wavers | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| and letting go of oneself occur through blindness, weakness, fear, lack of inner freedom, and error, the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| what you fear, in order to coddle a weakness. When you no longer desire happiness in order | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| impulses of genuine affection as much as fearing weakness and desire for dependency. The loser fears the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| others can never provide. It frees you from weakness and dependency, from the need to belittle and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| In other words, both extremes of the ego's weakness and its inflation must hinder the reaching of | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| is underdeveloped, your efforts to compensate create a weakness and evasion that can produce only more weakness | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| weakness and evasion that can produce only more weakness. As long as the ego is not strong | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| out of strength and abundance, not out of weakness, need and poverty. Only when the ego is | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| distorting the greater laws. Out of need and weakness the ego forgoes the strength and fullness that | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| inner level, you fear the consequences of this weakness and dependency. Therefore, as an inwardly weak and | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| by not giving up and letting go. The weakness creates fear, and fear generates distrust. Therefore you | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| real. By dint of your feelings of helpless weakness and inadequacy, others assume the role of giants | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| take over. Allowing this takeover to happen is weakness, not love; fear, not goodness; appeasing and encouraging | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| have become helpless and powerless. In reality, your weakness and helplessness is never due to the stronger | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| nor does it mean fearful giving in or weakness. It means going with the stream of life | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| which you vaguely defend against in yourself. Such weakness is always a result of some disturbance of | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| negativity and destructiveness. The way to eliminate the weakness is not by forcing the destructive feelings away | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| a very deep level with these problems. Often weakness is confused with goodness, and strength with ruthlessness | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| a derelict. What at first is merely a weakness takes on forever greater proportions, perpetuating itself until | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| this world harbors an attitude of fear and weakness. Because this corner of the personality usually induces | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| device is invented in order to hide this weakness and dependency which makes you feel utterly helpless | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| an inexhaustible well of wonderful feelings. Insecurity and weakness cannot exist when these feelings are activated. When | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| inner being where you are not chained in weakness and anxiety, or in fear and anger. You | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| with it for the purpose of eliminating this weakness in you that binds you and that wastefully | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| have your own private excuse to beautify your weakness and apparently make an asset out of it | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Only by coming face to face with your weakness and dependency, with your forcing-current that says to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| such healthy self-assertion makes self-surrender possible. Conversely, the weakness of an ego that fears self-responsibility makes self-surrender | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| state of dependency and lack of identity, of weakness and helplessness, because he or she feels remotely | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of these attitudes nurtures hate, separateness, distrustfulness, illusion, weakness, the tendency to damage the self and forego | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| deceived. How often do you claim that your weakness is love, when inwardly you are seething with | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| pretended love has been removed and disclosed as weakness and desire to placate others so as to | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| demands, no matter how exploitative. The spinelessness and weakness of many people result from a deep-seated fear | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| can be a sick manifestation of self-destructiveness and weakness -- exploiting others through self-enslavement, just as one | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| concern with the person one is dependent on; weakness, helplessness, false humility -- therefore rage, anger, rebellion | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| experience. The latter occurs out of fear and weakness and cringes from experience. By fighting against the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| ego on the surface often indicates an inner weakness of ego. Conversely, a weak ego on the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| self-pity, resentments, and helplessness and thus increase our weakness, paralysis, dependence, and destructiveness. Or we can decide | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| Some personalities find it expedient to dramatize the weakness and thus attempt to make an asset of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| who experiences feelings of uncertainty, fear, insecurity, guilt, weakness, doubt, negativity, inadequacy, and inferiority. To the degree | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| and disunity. Not learning to walk creates unhappiness, weakness, pain and limitation, which are all overcome when | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| or she does not, this indicates some unrecognized weakness and fear that needs to be faced. If | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| falseness and confusion in which uncertainty, defensiveness, and weakness may make you either retreat or become overaggressive | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| make you more loving, the acceptance of your weakness will make you stronger, the acceptance of your | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| feeling it. Through the gateway of feeling your weakness lies your strength; through the gateway of feeling | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| and energy of the process. If you feel weakness and doubt in your statement of intent, it | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| is -- totally unjustified? Do you deplore your weakness, your lack of self-assertion? All these are effects | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| also lead to self-destructive acts; it must cause weakness, anxiety, lack of assertiveness, and all the ills | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| beautiful you become. The more you accept your weakness, the stronger you are. The more you admit | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| you can experience it cleanly, without guilt, self-doubt, weakness, and lingering ill-effects. Jealousy and envy, however, are | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| hand, you will be paralyzed by fear and weakness and unable to assert yourself. You will be | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| This unconscious effort then manifests as tiredness, exhaustion, weakness, which furnish the excuse to remain still longer | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| that acceptance of pain implies a masochistic, sacrificial weakness and submission, but quite the contrary. True resilient | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| It is a pseudo-strength that comes from the weakness of insisting on having it your own way | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| The very act of saying no with a weakness, a tightness, an unhealthiness prevents creative receptivity. By | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| you have to do here. What is the weakness you have to bring out? What is the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| and rejection; you fear your need and your weakness; because you do not yet know how to | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| deal with his own feelings of inferiority and weakness, and wished to pretend that he did not | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| not want to face his own feelings of weakness and inferiority and who therefore needs to feel | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| weaker mate in order to deny his own weakness. He meets his own weakness, faces it and | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| deny his own weakness. He meets his own weakness, faces it and thereby gains his real strength | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| gains his real strength. He realizes that his weakness always comes from guilt, and his self-rejection is | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| is then anyway illusory. Once he faces his weakness he must gain his true strength. Therefore his | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| his positive aggression behind and has expressed a weakness he would never have let himself expose in | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| strength because he is able to face his weakness. That is how he expands the real values | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| is death, what is power and what is weakness. When you are in the dualistic confusion you | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| during the lecture and indicated that this physical weakness was a new opening for her and that | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| determination, will, on all levels of being. The weakness of the pulse brings about a quicker -- | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| world outside. For it is a human being's weakness to always believe of others what they feel | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| choice is made not out of fear and weakness, dependency and submission, nor is it a rebellion | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| stubborn, rebellious strength that is nothing but concealed weakness and the real strength that comes from being | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| to liberate yourself from the illusion that your weakness, your cowardliness, are really not so harmful, and | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| permeating and weakening guilt. So much of your weakness, hesitation, self-doubt, so many of your self-punishing patterns | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Christians become weaker. They may cover up the weakness by a mask of strength, which deceives no | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| not know why. In fact they believe their weakness stems from having been influenced in childhood to | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| ability to let go in strength, rather than weakness, depends on that. Of course, autonomy, or its | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |