| Ego-control.................2 | |
| not fear loss of control because loss of ego-control will lead to more control in a better | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| go and letting flow, of not letting the ego-control take over and blot out the eternal flow | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Ego-cooperation.............1 | |
| outer conditions that cause these emotions. Do this ego-cooperation in a firm, relaxed way. Relaxation must be | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Ego-defenses................1 | |
| for and in me. I rather trust my ego-defenses and protective blockings, no matter how destructive they | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Ego-determined..............1 | |
| all those activities which are more mechanical and ego-determined work together in harmony, the object cannot be | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| Ego-directed................1 | |
| force, by an inner volition that was not ego-directed. You were purified, uplifted and strengthened by this | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Ego-drive...................1 | |
| of being the best you can be. The ego-drive may appear to give you power over others | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Ego-existence...............4 | |
| aspects of the real life stream. The isolated ego-existence is also a general state affecting all people | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| realization of the illusory character of a separate ego-existence is an extremely important step in the evolution | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| thus diminishing your fear and your illusory, isolated, ego-existence. How to apply this, my friends, to where | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| in a different way than you had thought. Ego-existence -- being totally attached to the ego levels | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Ego-faculties...............6 | |
| be compared to reality, as it unfolds. The ego-faculties will help in the process; reason and intelligence | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| strength of feelings, with your adult understanding and ego-faculties. Cruelty can exist only as a result of | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| yet integrated these energies and feelings with the ego-faculties. When this integration takes place, the vulnerable live | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| human battle is holding on to the outer ego-faculties because of a desperate fear of the involuntary | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| yourself against them by strict vigilance, using your ego-faculties. Furthermore, you ignore how damaging this solution is | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of the real self. Therefore, hearing that the ego-faculties, which one considers the only real ones, cease | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| Ego-forces..................1 | |
| necessitates letting go of the ego-will and the ego-forces, and then surrendering to the beneficial forces of | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Ego-gratification...........6 | |
| make a sacrifice -- perhaps to renounce my ego-gratification. Please show me how I can give out | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to be perfect in order to have more ego-gratification and to swell its head, to be admired | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| self-assertion and for flexible adjustment; the needs for ego-gratification and for unselfishness. These, and many other apparently | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| In the well- functioning personality, the need for ego-gratification is acknowledged, but it is not exaggerated at | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| to another. For example, if the need for ego-gratification in a relationship is disproportionately stronger than the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the need for creative accomplishment, the need for ego-gratification and self-esteem, the need for the pleasure of | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| Ego-identification..........2 | |
| seek more and more means to reinforce your ego-identification: more outer ways, outer activities, outer beliefs, and | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| a symptom of the basic ill of exclusive ego-identification, no matter what name you give it: neurosis | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Ego-image...................1 | |
| be other than what you are. The idealized ego-image takes predominance over what is real. Thus you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Ego-importance..............1 | |
| all blocks and errors in the human soul. Ego-importance and preoccupation are directly opposed to love. But | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Ego-intellect...............1 | |
| perceived by activating this intuition, too. For the ego-intellect cannot decide when and how to use both | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| Ego-intelligence............2 | |
| which by far surpasses the conscious, directly available ego-intelligence. Therefore, the latter must be used deliberately in | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| infinite in good, infinite in abundance. If the ego-intelligence can accept this as a possibility and work | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Ego-involved................1 | |
| task from an inner place that is not ego-involved, not steeped in vanity or pride. And that | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Egoism......................2 | |
| Those who lust for freedom out of pure egoism, elevating themselves above God and claiming freedom from | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| effect. Each thought of hate, of separation, of egoism, of injustice, of discrimination, of wanting more for | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| Egoless.....................1 | |
| inner evil, you cannot claim your total, wonderful egoless self. You remain selfish, concerned only in a | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Ego-level...................3 | |
| how much this belief controls you on the ego-level, I recommend that you think of these words | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| free. Only when you can lose on the ego-level can you win on the level of the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| way, and your refusal to lose on the ego-level make it impossible for you to win where | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Ego-mind....................8 | |
| you and show you the way. But the ego-mind so often stands in the way. It believes | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| unable to effect the balance. Nor can the ego-mind find the balance between self- assertion and giving | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| fluctuating balance between inner action and the conscious ego-mind. You must learn to sense when to be | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| roles of active and receptive interaction. Your conscious ego-mind can activate the divine process and let it | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| possibility is that you actively use your conscious ego-mind, but address it this time to the lower | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| self can be instructed by both the conscious ego-mind and the divine self -- perhaps in that | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| it talk or write to you through your ego-mind. The divine self can instruct the usually unconscious | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| rather than trying to understand directly with your ego-mind. The workings of the greater self so far | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Ego-needs...................1 | |
| which are hidden very different feelings such as ego-needs and negative aims. People use each other in | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| Ego-orientation.............1 | |
| tension, separateness, contraction. It comes from an excessive ego-orientation and is therefore totally alien to a state | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Ego-oriented................1 | |
| based mainly on appearance and on superficial, dualistic, ego-oriented ways. The same applies of course to every | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Ego-personality.............4 | |
| as autonomous consciousness or as energy. The separated ego-personality possesses both, but the ego intelligence is by | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| error to approach your self-realization as though your ego-personality were basically and intrinsically different from the inner | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| my friends. In the first place, your conscious ego-personality itself becomes stronger and healthier. It will be | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| move the inner will is expressed, as your ego-personality commits to wanting help, you will become calm | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Ego-pride...................2 | |
| greater frequency. But wherever there is still fear, ego-pride is always partially responsible. This ego-pride is connected | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| still fear, ego-pride is always partially responsible. This ego-pride is connected to your ignorance of the nature | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Egos........................3 | |
| feel worthless and dependent, or will inflate their egos. This is so subtle that you cannot be | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| human beings only experience yourselves as cut-off, powerless egos, and when you consequently try to put all | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| in truth. But all of you manifest as egos and must go through the same fundamental struggle | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Ego's.......................38 | |
| mingles with the good motives, perhaps as the ego's vain desire to be outstanding, to be admired | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| self. In other words, both extremes of the ego's weakness and its inflation must hinder the reaching | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| comes to letting go. As long as the ego's hold is not loosened, true happiness cannot come | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| truth that goes way beyond the fearful little ego's interests. When this truth is sought deep inside | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| versus rebellion and defiance. True emancipation from the ego's outer rules requires neither conformity nor rebellion. It | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| order to maintain the involuntary, self-regulating functions. The ego's task is to choose to take care of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Be in peace. Be in God! 158. THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| self. It is true when one says the ego's predominance, its exaggerated strength, is the greatest hindrance | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| are its functions. But it is not the ego's function to feel, to experience deeply and to | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| is exclusively attached to the ego. For the ego's capacities to cope with life and to live | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| come about until you let go of the ego's predominance. This brings me to the next very | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| and the real self. It means knowing the ego's functions, its limitations, as well as its power | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| are, how to use them, and where the ego's limitations are. We shall go into greater detail | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| to establish contact permanently with it. Moreover, the ego's task is to discover the obstructions that lie | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| but it comes as a response to the ego's wish to comprehend and to change falseness, destructiveness | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| change falseness, destructiveness, error. In other words, the ego's task is to formulate the thought, the intent | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| intelligence, no logic, no lawfulness other than the ego's when the ego mistrusts the universal forces. No | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| safe and trustworthy. But as long as the ego's aims, attitudes and inclinations are diametrically opposed to | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| It will not be clogged up by the ego's need to be in control. How can you | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the conscious ego. On the conscious level the ego's function is wanting to see the full truth | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| As long as you are encased in the ego's walls, you must fear death, even as you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| pridefully put in the service of maintaining the ego's separation. It is always I versus you, and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| life itself. But on a deeper level the ego's trick is to remain isolated. Under the category | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| fear belong all worries, anxieties, and apprehensions. The ego's trick is to make change appear threatening and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| expanded. Negative intentionality is also part of the ego's trickery to preserve your present limited state. Whatever | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| energy system begins to function to deny the ego's expansion, which would effect self-transcendence. The ego denies | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| gives up its resistance. In spite of the ego's extreme discomfort, it clings to that very condition | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| around this territory indicate the degree of the ego's self-transcendence. Every incarnation, on whatever level, requires increasing | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the personality, second nature, so to speak. The ego's task is always first to accept the difficulties | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| flow through it by identifying and abandoning the ego's tricks. Whether it takes shape as new knowledge | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| seems frightening at first to go beyond the ego's present confines. The new territory is foreign, unknown | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you increase your capacity to see through the ego's tricks and be attentive to your inner movements | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| inspired answers which are nothing more than your ego's wishful thinking. Only when you have attained a | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| everything is complicated by the multiplicity of the ego's separation from the oneness. In that state of | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| indeed have. Does letting go of the little ego's selfwill mean having to settle for unhappiness and | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| areas, yet the negative self still exists. The ego's block against recognition of the negative makes it | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| you lose focus or seem to, notice the ego's intentionality. The divine voice will not tell you | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| need to give up your claim for the ego's perfection that is based on pride, comparison, vanity | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |