| Ego-self....................19 | |
| to do with the giving up of the ego-self which Jesus taught. Only thus will you win | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| it be to give up your little, outer ego-self. Let it flow and integrate with your inner | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| as you experience yourself only as the outer ego-self, you will depend on others. Only when you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| as your very existence is identified with the ego-self and therefore with the dualistic approach to life | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| As long as you identify exclusively with your ego-self and as long as you ignore the other | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| laws, they still find themselves confined within the ego-self, deeply immersed in its dualistic struggle between conformity | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Trying to attain this undifferentiated good with your ego-self does not work. Where your real self is | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| concentrate all energies and forces in your outer ego-self, so that you become more and more disconnected | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| So you force yourself to love with your ego-self, which attempt, of course, is doomed to fail | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| ego -- also the unconscious part of the ego-self -- is attached to a destructive attitude, it | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| many, often very subtle ways in which the ego-self clings to separating attitudes -- perhaps not wanting | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| surrender to a power greater than your willful ego-self, and thus become capable of loving. Whatever you | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the undeveloped part of the self. The conscious ego-self must decide for this integration and fight for | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| you consider yourself exclusively as the conscious, willing, ego-self. Resistance is partly an expression of avoiding the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the lower self and the conscious, reasonable, positive ego-self takes place constantly, will you eventually find your | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| exactly where you have to go. But your ego-self must want and ask for this guidance. If | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| ultimately emerges is a real fulfillment. Your outer ego-self will no longer contradict your Godself. This state | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to go through the work that the outer ego-self has to do in order to become a | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| strength to risk letting go and shedding your ego-self. You will create a harmonious automatic response that | 254 SURRENDER |
| Ego-selves..................1 | |
| jeopardize something, they who truly give up their ego-selves, will receive life, again in the spiritual sense | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| Ego-split...................1 | |
| intensely separating expression. But when you conciliate your ego-split with the real self and thus discover the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Ego-stake...................1 | |
| are at times colored by your own personal ego-stake. Not to have this ego in the foreground | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| Ego-structuring.............1 | |
| not abandoned. In pride, selfwill, and fear the ego-structuring becomes more tight and rigid. Selfwill says, Me | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Ego-struggle................1 | |
| choose it, it will emancipate you from the ego-struggle. Its solutions will bring you less pain and | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| Egotism.....................15 | |
| wisdom to blindness, love to hatred, fear, or egotism, and union became separateness. Then wholeness split even | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| up your pride, your fear, your self-will, your egotism, or a particular resentment or resistance to a | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| In the measure that self-will, pride, vanity, and egotism are present in the soul, they inevitably bring | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| more primitive persons. When errors of selfishness and egotism exist on the surface, the repercussions occur outwardly | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| from the chains of error caused by the egotism that is so destructive. You will not bury | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| it has remained childish in its self-directedness and egotism. Your unconscious sexual fault, therefore, lies in the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| pay the price for it. To give up egotism on all levels of your being, to reach | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| but your ignorance, your fear, your pride, your egotism that directly or indirectly caused that which seemed | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| everyone involved, making my decisions with as little egotism as possible, but with the healthy premise that | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| into claiming that true self-interest is nothing but egotism and destructive selfishness. This is why you need | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| hiding it. When you deny your malice and egotism, you breed trouble for yourself and others. For | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| desire and personal fear, from a state of egotism and separation -- me versus the other. It | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| centered within your divine self, then vanity and egotism stop. Vanity and egotism exist if the search | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| self, then vanity and egotism stop. Vanity and egotism exist if the search for the divine nucleus | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| and purified. As this happens, petty feelings of egotism and jealousy make way for a deep knowledge | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| Egotist.....................1 | |
| or the hateful demon or the petty, selfish egotist. So, identification with the real self removes the | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Egotistic...................4 | |
| holds the opposite and truthful view. Confront this egotistic concept with the deeper knowledge that only by | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| resistance to seeing a wider truth than the egotistic one, your path becomes so much easier than | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| a complete perspective on the revelation of the egotistic infant, one needs to ask constantly the guidance | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| not have too big a stake in your egotistic self- righteousness. However, if you feel personally humiliated | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Egotistical.................18 | |
| and immature personality is entirely self- centered and egotistical; it is separated from the love force and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| result of your fear of giving up the egotistical state that alone seems to guarantee life. It | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| healthy self- interest almost always interferes with the egotistical self-interests of the other person. This is why | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the true growth and unfoldment of those whose egotistical, sick interests play into your own fearful, dependent | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| all conscious knowing and willing; (2) the unconscious egotistical child level, with all its ignorance, destructiveness, and | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the conscious ego level activates both the unconscious, egotistical, destructive self and the supraconscious, superior universal self | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| must be completely determined to allow the unconscious egotistical self to reveal itself, to unfold, to manifest | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| a human being is capable of allowing the egotistical, irrational, outright destructive child to manifest in the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| must deal with this kind of blindness. The egotistical infant's antisocial desires and claims, convictions and attitudes | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| giving voice to the recalcitrant aspect of the egotistical, destructive self that denies happiness, fulfillment, and beauty | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| process: first the recognition of the unconscious destructive egotistical self and then the understanding of the underlying | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| to destroy. On this level you are totally egotistical and therefore unwilling to accept any frustration, little | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| now. No matter how negative, mean, vain, or egotistical you may find a corner of yourself to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| changed. For example, today humankind's greatest hindrance is egotistical pride. People have accomplished much with the powers | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| place only to the degree that negativities and egotistical defenses are being abandoned, and the involuntary movement | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| all that vitality, health, radiance and beauty for egotistical reasons or competitive power drives. Then the inner | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| could not simply be a victim of man's egotistical desires to feel superior and stronger and to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| greater must be your stake in some prideful, egotistical, self-elevating and self-righteous position that, at the same | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Ego-trick...................1 | |
| will stay where and as I am. This ego-trick makes rigidity appear desirable and makes open, flexible | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Ego-will....................5 | |
| After making this separation, let go of the ego-will that acts against divine law. It can only | 18 FREE WILL |
| them. Such trust necessitates letting go of the ego-will and the ego-forces, and then surrendering to the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| can be removed by the direct application of ego-will. The ego-will has its necessary function, but it | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| removed by the direct application of ego-will. The ego-will has its necessary function, but it is only | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| self, so that resistance can be overcome. The ego-will alone may be incapable of accomplishing this, but | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Egypt.......................5 | |
| wrote a play about a former incarnation in Egypt and I wonder if I myself was in | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| and I wonder if I myself was in Egypt in a former incarnation? ANSWER: At this opportunity | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| world. QUESTION: Could you explain the role of Egypt? I can see the theory of pseudo-solutions where | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Greece and other cultures are concerned, but with Egypt something has been lost, where there seems to | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| be lost because of not associating it with Egypt, but that does not mean it is lost | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Eichmann....................1 | |
| great publicity given to the trial of Adolf Eichmann. My questions are, one, can we, and should | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Either/or...................68 | |
| gradations. Therefore it is not a matter of either/or. In some cases the opposing emotions surge with | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| a mask. You always tend to think in either/or terms. Humanity has learned by now that it | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| have come. But the need to exclude an either/or judgment also holds true for every individual tendency | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the other person in terms of an absolute either/or, though you may have moderated this attitude somewhat | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you are used to thinking in terms of either/or. If you are what the recognition shows you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| altogether. This is due not only to the either/or attitude of the immature part of yourself, but | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| are possible. Humanity always thinks in terms of either/or. I have no way of determining now which | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the illusion that it is a question of either/or. The more one is involved in duality, the | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| have made some discoveries along these lines. This either/or attitude is the basis for emotional disturbance, immaturity | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| is quite evident. Both are based on an either/or attitude, as well as on your own stringent | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| good and right and beautiful. In such childish either/or attitudes, this is it, this is final, until | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| three share the common denominator of the childish either/or attitude. It is impossible to withstand the frustration | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| that people are so often hindered by the either/or attitude. They feel either that they must strive | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| hasty oversimplification to answer this question with an either/or explanation. If a person does not consciously daydream | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| your parents. Your emotional experience is always an either/or, and therefore you are not in touch with | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| question, I have this to say: Here the either/or attitude of the child prevails. The child in | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| selfishness is also based on the principle of either/or. The child in you feels that if you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| are degrees; it is not a question of either/or. There are areas in which a person is | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| them. Human conceptions create a duality here, an either/or. You feel that either you are in control | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| relationship to life always amounts to an arbitrary either/or attitude. This we have also discussed at various | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| we have also discussed at various times. The either/or attitude, gravely and falsely limits spiritual reality, the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| is necessary, and therefore should be sought, the either/or attitude has three important subdivisions, contained in all | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| cannot be found on the narrow level of either/or. The scope and depth of reality is much | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| pretense. Let us now look at the second either/or, the choice between two equally undesirable alternatives. Such | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| between equally undesirable and painful alternatives. The third either/or is the assumption that only a limited degree | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| must determine where you limit yourself to an either/or concept in the belief that suffering is inevitable | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| her great stumbling blocks is a tremendously strong either/or. It is unusually strong in her case. It | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| around her, to help her see that this either/or is false, illusory. As long as humans desire | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| this lecture. Last time we discussed the arbitrary either/or concepts that all human beings harbor. They are | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| your greatest limitations, one of the most common either/or concepts: the attitude toward life of winning versus | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| harder and harsher than it actually is. The either/or choices shed a dismal light on life. Both | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the subtle climate of the hidden atmosphere of either/or. Extended progress on your path has brought you | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| that does away with mutual exclusiveness. From an either/or consciousness you change into one of fullness and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| To the degree that you liberate yourself from either/or concepts, fear gives way to truth, and you | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and concepts. Again, you are confronted with an either/or: you believe that you must make a choice | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| together two apparent contradictions and thereby eliminates an either/or situation. Tonight's topic is a fundamental one for | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| mold. Almost every issue turns into a narrow either/or choice. The choice is impossible to make, because | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| in false control, you are again in an either/or situation. You are not loving and you do | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| in the unity of being, there is no either/or, for it is always me and the other | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| goes away completely. It is sort of an either/or business. ANSWER: That is exactly what I meant | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| where you perceive and experience everything in opposites: either/or; good or bad; right or wrong; life or | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| wrong. With dualistic understanding issues can only be either/or. The outcome seems to matter more than the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| that it is not necessarily a question of either/or, but that there may be aspects of right | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| easier than the struggle that ensues on the either/or plane of the dualistic life. Before you can | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| mean, however, that the good of the dualistic either/or is realized. People who believe this misconception follow | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| in which life is understood in terms of either/or. Either I have or the other has is | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| at the expense of others. This is the either/or resulting from the erroneous dualistic concepts which are | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| whole picture and tends to think in an either/or manner. You are not relegated to this sphere | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| in this separated state is dualism -- all either/or. We have talked about many dualistic aspects, many | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| where it is so often a question of either/or. In this case, you believe it to be | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| one that perceives life always in terms of either/or, good or bad, this or that -- one | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the degree that you are fixated on this either/or duality, you are in error and tension. Since | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| stuck in battling with one of these typical either/or problems. How can you really want to give | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| duality. So much confusion exists because of the either/or alternative and the topic under discussion is particularly | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| separation is as much an illusion as the either/or duality. It is not that either you are | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| how people are hooked together in denial, guilt-projection, either/or struggle, confusion, and negative interactions. Someone must begin | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| present. For humans perceive reality in terms of either/or, good or bad, right or wrong, black or | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| most superficial ego level where the duality of either/or reigns supreme. In reality these are mutually interdependent | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| no longer live in the two-dimensional world of either/or. You avail yourself of the many-faceted reality at | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| dualistic consciousness only when you see beyond the either/or and see the true and distorted possibilities of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| great mistake to think of this development in either/or terms. There are those who believe that group | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| rigid division. I have shown how the dualistic either/or is rigid, shortsighted and no longer applicable. However | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| so many other areas, it is not an either/or. There are degrees. A person can function in | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| truly groping in the dark in an eternal either/or, in an eternal duality. Even if your intellect | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| dualistic 'airpocket' of life versus death -- an either/or. In that experience, in that vision, when you | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| -- a fusion of the dualities, of the either/or principle. You will find that you are neither | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| right. In the childish consciousness everything is always either/or. You know that. All images come from the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| mind that is steeped in the dualism of either/or. Let me present these three paradoxical aspects: (1 | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |