| Compel......................3 | |
| illusion, existing in every human, may at times compel you to sell your soul. This may happen | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| guilty and ill at ease. Nor will it compel you to justify yourself. Healthy anger will never | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| The misconceptions, deeply lodged in the soul substance, compel people to act upon these premises. Since the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Compelled...................30 | |
| the desires of their lower selves, but feel compelled to put on an act, which disturbs their | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| given on false premises. So the person feels compelled to create a mask self in which, of | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| love is not true love if you are compelled to see this person in an idealized form | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| often unconsciously -- something you are forced, or compelled to obey, an authority that is stronger than | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| from the main vicious circle. Hence, you are compelled to have an opinion that is not in | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| opinion on many subjects. And therefore one is compelled, consciously, to adopt an opinion on an emotional | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| into the cause, and the stronger you are compelled to wish a wrong attitude away, so to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| as you. The supposed mortal danger you are compelled to ward off is often truth itself, my | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| comes into contact with someone whom he feels compelled to envy and thus may be pulled out | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| motivation for embracing the cause you are still compelled to identify with an outer authority. I do | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| force must enter into distorted areas, even when compelled to manifest in an erroneous, inverted way until | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| The more you do, the less you feel compelled to react blindly and the less likely are | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| afraid, unalive, bored, disgusted with yourself or others, compelled to do, say, think and feel things you | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| that one resents in others what one feels compelled to perpetuate, in the misunderstanding that a similar | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| you do not know this and you are compelled to go on numbing your real feelings. You | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| in facts that are not inevitable. You are compelled to prove your specialness and to set yourself | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| own being that you cannot stand and feel compelled to imitate, thereby counterfeiting your very existence. The | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| this area of the soul one is constantly compelled to sell out and betray oneself in order | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| weak spot which makes them feel impotent and compelled to sell out. You already know, my friends | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| both selfish and pleasure-denying. The more you feel compelled to deny yourself pleasure, the more selfish you | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| not obtain sufficient relief and replenishment -- is compelled to pursue self-destructive aims. Every act of self-destructiveness | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in being healthily aggressive. Such an individual feels compelled to always submit, to never say No to | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| primitive, destructive feelings to the surface without being compelled into action by them. The self-discipline and reasoning | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| way, or he feels extremely uncomfortable and strongly compelled when he refrains from assuming the false responsibility | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| these images, and you saw how you were compelled to reexperience misconceptions and stagnant feelings. Over and | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| this equation is grossly false, yet you are compelled to react to all women as if they | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| them, and assume responsibility for them. They felt compelled to give vent to them and became wholly | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| to the point where you often still feel compelled to destroy it, is due precisely to this | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| by this truth. Let us say you are compelled by inner forces to commit an impulsive destructive | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to reality. Thus you will no longer be compelled to rebel against a rightful authority who merely | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Compelling..................4 | |
| Once this is seen, the substitute with its compelling nature will lessen to the degree one understands | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| when, and how you deviate, without judging or compelling yourself to be different immediately. Just see it | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| conscious decision forgotten, and what remains is a compelling force toward cruel acts. In these instances, all | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| unpurified areas of your soul becomes an inevitably compelling field of attraction to powerful forces of evil | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Compensate..................7 | |
| up to others. That knowledge will more than compensate you for the difference between reality and illusion | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of unrestituted real guilt. Certain people tend to compensate for their real guilts by letting themselves be | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| new values by using indulgence and permissiveness to compensate for their latent hostility. Conforming to the new | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| child use the compulsive need for overindulgence to compensate for the negative currents in the parents that | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| do not move where you should move. To compensate, you struggle and move too much where you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| if the ego is underdeveloped, your efforts to compensate create a weakness and evasion that can produce | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| split-off opposite distorted condition: False control tries to compensate for the false lack of control, and vice | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Compensation................17 | |
| other you find in such pleasant pain a compensation for the privations of your life experience. These | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| this is so because it needs them, as compensation. Humans could possess many more of these faculties | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| training period, and when everything is right, monetary compensation will be forthcoming without asking for it. The | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| are relatively small, and where less of a compensation is needed. The purpose of alternating incarnations is | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| to be cherished for your shortcomings as a compensation for your imagined inability to change and thus | 31 SHAME |
| monster-image, but is often a reaction to and compensation for the false concept. The personality may grapple | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| so often in the image work. As a compensation for this so-called humility, you do not seek | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| The outer one is often overemphasized as a compensation for the inner disinclination to pay the price | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| your constructive patterns beginning to work, is ample compensation for all the years of destructive and unproductive | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and side effects. Briefly: pride is always a compensation for feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. That the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| be exploited. It is true that if this compensation takes place on a superficial level, more harm | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| unwanted situation with the other parent -- a compensation. The two sets of attitudes together form your | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| in this state withdraws from desiring. As a compensation, the soul strains in self-willed greed -- from | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| feminine principle should reign. This distortion is a compensation for underactivity where he should exert his masculine | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| basic principle. The See-Saw Law or Law of Compensation Wherever a misconception exists, your balance structure has | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| not an expression of inner clarity, but a compensation, a false attempt to resolve inner disorderliness. When | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| well know from your own inner processes, is compensation. It still exists in human consciousness. It is | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Compete.....................3 | |
| be disinclined to be competitive. You want to compete with the person who brings this forth in | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| It may be directed mainly toward accomplishments, to compete and try to be better than everyone else | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| above others, needing admiration; needing to compare and compete and subdue others to prove itself superior. This | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Competing...................3 | |
| put upon and resents its own supposed disadvantages, competing with the other sex for its advantages. Hence | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| mate. She will encourage his full selfhood, not competing with or rejecting his activation because it no | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| right for all concerned. Therefore all comparing and competing to best others increases the separation and sharpens | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Competition.................4 | |
| another person shows a very strong spirit of competition toward you, something is immediately aroused in you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| try to be better than everyone else. Any competition will be felt as an injury to the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| ego does is always either against or in competition or in comparison with others. This is what | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| but not in a spirit of hate, rebellion, competition, defiance, not by imitating the worst excesses and | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Competitive.................4 | |
| though you may otherwise be disinclined to be competitive. You want to compete with the person who | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| life conditions is also responsible for the endemic competitive attitude that afflicts humanity. This is manifest particularly | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| health, radiance and beauty for egotistical reasons or competitive power drives. Then the inner guilt will not | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| you envy leadership in others. You are also competitive, but you often conceal this feeling from yourself | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Competitiveness.............9 | |
| power drive, a need to triumph over others, competitiveness, and excessive demands. The idealized self-image will be | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Let us now return to jealousy, envy, and competitiveness. Why are they absolutely never true and justified | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| something that they do not, jealousy, envy and competitiveness come in. Why are these feelings unrealistic? They | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| first examined your areas of jealousy, envy, and competitiveness very closely; second, if you admitted that whatever | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| from the reality of the world's ever-available abundance. Competitiveness -- a variation of envy and jealousy -- | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and contradictory attitudes contained in envy, jealousy, resentments, competitiveness, blame, and so on, should not drive these | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| cannot be beauty and love without humor. QUESTION: Competitiveness? Self-centeredness, wanting to be the center of attention | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| is applied to the separated ego. Ambitiousness and competitiveness are a distortion of the inner movement to | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| you may indeed have outgrown your jealousies, your competitiveness, your ungivingness, your selfishness, your lack of concern | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |