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| to want to appear superior to others. You hide your faults, you hide your shortcomings, and you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| superior to others. You hide your faults, you hide your shortcomings, and you want to show your | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in the lives of others. Your fears also hide your light of love, understanding, and truth. So | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you really think and feel about yourself and hide it behind a wall, so to speak. You | 31 SHAME |
| not the point. You cover it up; you hide it; you appear to be without that something | 31 SHAME |
| security and self-respect. For as long as you hide behind a wall of falsity, you must despise | 31 SHAME |
| deceive and escape yourself, or how much you hide behind a wall of pretense. This wall of | 31 SHAME |
| not only with what you consciously know and hide. That is comparatively easy. Once you are able | 31 SHAME |
| it away; in that way it will only hide in your soul and cause you more harm | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| remember them because you felt the need to hide this whole procedure for its lack of rational | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| not want to have this pride, therefore I hide it from myself. Your concern about other people's | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| off something that is alive. You can only hide it so that it will come out in | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the higher aims, which serve very well to hide their existence. It is very important to find | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| will understand why you felt it necessary to hide the existence of the bad motives from your | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| order to safeguard their own position and to hide their own rebellion -- which deep down is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| as a camouflage behind which you continue to hide. This happens so frequently, my friends. No truth | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| truths to reinforce the wall. So you can hide your faults, emotional conflicts, fears, and negative trends | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| fallen unconsciously into this trap. You may even hide behind a true recognition about yourself, let us | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| or certain faults you have found. You may hide behind that, you may use that as the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| utterly unaware about it in oneself. You may hide behind a different truth, behind a different recognition | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| behind a different recognition, yet you also may hide just as much as the other person. Take | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a disadvantage to show them openly. Thus they hide the destructive impulses and thereby create obstructions and | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| an absurd, unjustified guilt as a shield and hide the true guilt behind it. Why? Because deep | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| absurd guilt you use as a wall to hide behind. What are absurd guilts? They are most | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of using the many layers of consciousness to hide reactions that do not accord with these truths | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you may have bent over backwards trying to hide what was behind it. Now you feel abused | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| may succeed in justifying your opinions -- may hide the weak and dependent motives. Do not forget | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| -- or whether these valid motives may also hide a selfish one. You will know how to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| God's will cannot manifest if you make decisions hide a fear that you are responsible and may | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this is what you must feel when you hide behind this wall of a fallacy. Such fallacies | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is also frowned upon. So it learns to hide this desire until the hiding has progressed so | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| itself unique in having failed and has to hide this shameful fact. Even when the person has | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| use the good aim as a screen to hide and foster erroneous motives. In woman it often | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the other hand, the woman may suppress and hide her aggression, hostility, and resentment for the man | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| use it constructively instead of compulsively seeking to hide it, or using it destructively out of an | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| by another human being and may decide to hide behind a wall. This may not be a | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love must be something shameful one has to hide. The realization that your fear of loving is | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| main component of the wall behind which you hide the real you is the shame of imagined | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| shame of loving and giving causes you to hide your true self behind a wall. The inevitable | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| wrong to have thought that you have to hide the best in you, that it is something | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| keep your real self hidden. One person will hide it behind a mask of aloofness and pseudo-strength | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| a mask of aloofness and pseudo-strength. Another will hide it behind a superimposed layer of something that | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| for such love and at the same time hide from it in fear. The child in you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| intellectually mature person will find adequate reasons to hide this emotional reaction and subjectivity. That is what | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| it away. In that way it will only hide in your soul and cause you more harm | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of not succeeding and unconsciously you labor to hide the failure from yourself. Thus a current is | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| guilty about. If you attack in order to hide something, it will make you as helpless as | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| may even bend over backwards so as to hide this attitude from others and yourself. Nevertheless, it | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| moment. But he acknowledged it, and did not hide it from himself or from others. What does | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| you expect from yourself. When you try to hide your reactions to your own failure, you use | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to life because you no longer have to hide something from yourself and others. You will be | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the healthy way will not cause you to hide from emotions, experience, life, and your own conflicts | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| embellish a situation to your friends; how you hide by subtly coloring that which seems painful and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| the demands, the more you feel you must hide them because you would be criticized and therefore | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| very fact that you are ashamed and therefore hide it produces strain, anxiety, pretense, and fear of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| as it were, religious precepts behind which you hide and excuse your childish tendencies to refuse to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a combination of both. In both instances you hide something and ardently try to prove to yourself | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| hidden does not exist. In one case you hide the rebellion and hostility; in the other, you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the rebellion and hostility; in the other, you hide the helplessness and desire for protection, the tendency | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| yourself as you still are induces you to hide what you disapprove of and causes you to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| any imperfection, of any immoral instinct, makes you hide it. You feel, I should not be like | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| do not need to pretend in order to hide them, only then do you grow, only then | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| indeed. Fears are so often a subterfuge to hide from the basic core of pain. They come | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| out into the world and into relationships and hide instead in your own corner whenever a hand | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| teachings or one's own previous genuine experiences. Superimpositions hide the real self. This is obvious. Superimpositions occur | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| not so bad, and thus can continue to hide from the truth within. This subterfuge is not | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| a hopeless depression will be less inclined to hide. Instead, they will go to those who find | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| Self-respect and self-assurance can not exist when you hide from seeing your impaired integrity. When, however, you | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| mutual growth through it, while the latter may hide his wish to escape under an unhealthy preoccupation | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the actual self-important and destructive impulses you also hide some of your most creative and inherently constructive | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| accept. The ignorant child, believing it has to hide, reacts very strongly before it is brought out | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| in yourself, which you do not have to hide once you know it. As long as a | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| a truthful phenomenon when there is nothing to hide, when you make the great decision not to | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| self-facing to a degree, you still manage to hide from issues when they become really painful and | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| blamed. In reality, it is your wish to hide yourself from yourself and others that separates you | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| by actually experiencing those areas where you still hide yourself. These are precisely the main barriers separating | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| try to expound a nihilistic world view, they hide their private fears, disappointments, and suffering, their distrust | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| a different device is invented in order to hide this weakness and dependency which makes you feel | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| yourself is a direct result of having to hide the underlying shameful and threatening forcing-current. It is | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| out of the fog of vagueness, where they hide under the collective label of anxiety. When you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| one whose reason and will function sufficiently to hide the inner alienation and who therefore thinks that | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| you do. It will be as unsafe to hide from yourself as it will be to express | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| more insecure and inferior he feels. He must hide his insecurity and sense of inferiority from the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| increasingly more disconnected and hopeless. In order to hide from others -- and primarily from yourself -- | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| you so busily try to conceal. If you hide and your role is that of being persecuted | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| it could not be different, for you cannot hide the energy of soul currents, you cannot make | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| worthless, I have no value. But I must hide this fact, so I must pretend that I | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| than others or only pretend in order to hide your feelings of worthlessness. It is all the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the false shames, prides, vanities that make me hide behind pretenses, and the subtle inner dishonesty in | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| to let go of the negativity and you hide this truth from your consciousness. Speculate upon the | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| first the negative emotions honestly. You did not hide from them. You did away with your pretenses | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| blame and accuse, feel sorry for yourself and hide from life. As you look at those reactions | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| destructiveness. The guiltier you feel, the more you hide what makes you feel guilty and the less | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| in turn increases the guilt. The more you hide from yourself, the more you frustrate yourself and | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| you strong and dissolves negative energy. When you hide your evil behind the evil of others, you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| aggression, becomes possible only when you no longer hide from your own honest insight and from your | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| assume responsibility for it. Yet, the more you hide it, the more you secretly believe that this | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| so that they will no longer have to hide from themselves. To whatever degree you are thus | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| cannot attain proper self-identification. Although your desire to hide the destructive aspects is more destructive than whatever | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is more destructive than whatever it is you hide, it indicates that you wish to be free | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be free from destructiveness. Thus the desire to hide destructiveness is a misplaced, misunderstood, and misread message | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| for weeks or for many incarnations. You may hide this terror from yourself or face it. To | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| will come out of it sooner. When you hide it, you have gained nothing, for the terror | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| lower self which the mask is designed to hide. However, by masking any part of yourself, you | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| they have not removed the defenses that still hide what they do not wish to acknowledge. The | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| feel guilty, and, certainly, you should no more hide it from yourself than any other reaction. Rather | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| toward the lower self. To the degree you hide from the lower self and are unwilling to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| the clouds become thinner. To whatever degree you hide behind negation and doubt, which are the strongest | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| false guilt and real guilt and one can hide the other. I have spoken of this before | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| The apparent paradox is that the more you hide from the pain of your guilt, the more | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| are closed books only as long as you hide from your own mind. To be able to | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| disorganized, no matter how much you try to hide this fact from your consciousness. You well know | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| this way of manifesting your otherwise laudable desire hide? Or is the desire overtly weak and even | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| tight this current is. The very tightness may hide an important clue to what you need to | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| others or using the ugliness of others to hide your own. I suggest that you also help | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| never exist in a group of people that hide their evil and pretend it does not exist | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| and all those things that are shadows that hide the sun from you. You are indeed blessed | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| negative part of yourself. For the more you hide it, the more you lose yourself in it | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| those parts of you which you wish to hide. Paradoxical as this may seem at first glance | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| painful predicament you put yourself in when you hide that which you are most ashamed and afraid | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| This vicious circle makes you more determined to hide and therefore feel more isolated, more negative, and | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| much less. You will be less inclined to hide and whitewash and be a-tremble of your own | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| other benign. When you stay in fear and hide from the inner evil, you cannot claim your | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| these assets in order to manipulate others and hide the domination you wish to exert, you may | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| are either doomed or from which you must hide. By admitting the existence of this negative part | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| mask self. In this struggle the temptation to hide, as well as the habit of doing so | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| maintain this state, the intention to perpetuate and hide these feelings, prevent the flowering of the hearts | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| process. People who cling to nihilistic philosophies invariably hide the process I just described. This kind of | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| immortality plays a tremendous role here. If you hide your fear of death, your lack of faith | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the truth of being -- to no longer hide from your truth. This truth can have many | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| is tragic, on the one hand, because to hide from it, to deny it makes it much | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| inner turmoil due to your frantic attempt to hide your self-hate from yourself. The more you do | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| genuinely possible only when you no longer excuse, hide, deny, rationalize, project, and hate others in order | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| remnants of self-hate remain because a stake to hide them still exists. I want to suggest here | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| area you react similarly to demonic entities who hide from the light of Christ, which contains all | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| the real wealth behind the frantic efforts to hide the assumed -- and hence self-created -- poverty | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| for it is finally joyfully revealed. Secrets always hide something negative, otherwise they would not be kept | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| not be difficult to discern the wish to hide something that is unpalatable to someone. Either you | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| secrecy. Merely believing that there is something to hide creates an aura of fog, a darkness that | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| mind grows in you which has nothing to hide, for which hiding seems utterly absurd, and being | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| and/or inner secrets. Look at what you still hide and you will find the key to where | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| when you know that there is nothing to hide, ever. And when you feel there is something | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| And when you feel there is something to hide, consider that perhaps what you hide is really | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| something to hide, consider that perhaps what you hide is really something damaging to yourself and/or others | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| really be convinced that you have nothing to hide. Imagine the feeling of no longer hiding anything | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |