| Hides.......................30 | |
| it manifests, and in what devious ways it hides behind handy excuses, you will not be able | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| as you cannot delve into what your unconscious hides, you do not know yourself. And how can | 31 SHAME |
| resent, feels let down and disappointed, or else hides the discovery in the unconscious, feeling guilty about | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| piety. What in your view is obvious devotion hides something completely different. No, my friends, it is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the issue in question. Rebellion or revolution always hides an unrecognized anger at the self projected on | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| less easy to detect, because such a type hides under the rationalization of how hypocritical the goody-goody | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| modesty and undemandingness. Very often the predominant tendency hides its opposite underneath. If the predominant tendency is | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| you try to slay the mind, it merely hides. It can only dissolve by a process of | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| frustrated and the anger personally hurts, it always hides something that you have not faced in yourself | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| they are maintained by man. If man, generally, hides within, what outwardly he wants to disappear, it | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| doubt or against selfishness or some attitude that hides a lack of integrity -- for otherwise these | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| phase of this inner struggle the superimposed conscience hides the lower self, instead of bringing it out | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of the infantile state. But the superimposed conscience hides also the most constructive and creative life-force and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| crux of the matter. The pretense not only hides what the child felt to be missing in | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| not. False, damaging, tortured moralizing and self-accusation always hides a deep inner insistence not to change. Hence | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| you must first penetrate the mask self that hides your destructive attitudes. You are so afraid to | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| to be unacceptable as it is and therefore hides it, even from oneself. Thus, the treasure that | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no sense to you. Although this guilt usually hides behind other attitudes, it is rarely so remote | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| be exposed not only to reveal what it hides, but also to lay bare its actual aspects | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| dignity when you give up the pride that hides the evil. Evil does not overwhelm and take | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the demonic self; and the mask self which hides the demonic or lower self. Needless to say | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| feel your lower self and the mask that hides it. If you do not, how can you | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| because they must first shed the mask that hides their shame of their real feelings. Those who | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| your anxiety and then feel whatever the anxiety hides. Only then can real aliveness come. Exhilaration, enthusiasm | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| when it expresses itself in distorted perfectionism, which hides an unwillingness to give up a real guilt | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| often a false mask, a ploy that only hides the cheating, bargaining, dishonesty, selling out, and negativity | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the wishful thinking of the mask self that hides the distortion and the untruth of the lower | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this by overemphasizing the power game. The woman hides the part in her where she, too, wants | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| is -- of the World Soul Substance that hides nothing -- and the deepest longing in your | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| visualize a world in which no one ever hides anything from anyone else? Is that not paradise | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Hiding......................107 | |
| Expect this and meet it halfway instead of hiding and escaping from it. Expect that just as | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| your fear realistically, and you will not be hiding from it as you are hiding from a | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not be hiding from it as you are hiding from a few other things in you. This | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| take the opportunity and step out of your hiding place, open your eyes, and see that herein | 31 SHAME |
| these doubts. And somehow you think that by hiding them they will disappear. But as you know | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| they were just about to bring out of hiding. Or let us take people who are known | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| The fear and shame you are so busily hiding have no reality, and yet spoil the life | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| make up for trying to cheat life by hiding from eros and thus withholding from the soul | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| could not grow up. Nothing that remains in hiding can grow; you know that. Therefore, even in | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| you desires two impossibilities, and often more. By hiding this conflict, you thought that you would rid | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the wall is to keep the negative in hiding, and one of the motives of this desire | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| good way to be able to go on hiding. Perhaps all this sounds strange to you and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| can find out when and how you are hiding behind your wall, and what truth you are | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| behavior is not quite genuine. Inwardly they are hiding many reactions that are contrary to the universal | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the graver is the danger that you are hiding your true motives. I suggest that you take | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| I mean not letting them slip back into hiding, for then the work has to be done | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| it learns to hide this desire until the hiding has progressed so far that the growing person | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| them, experience them, lift them out of their hiding places and come to terms with them, you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| suppressed and have to be brought out of hiding. What is it you really wish and why | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| afraid of having these doubts and is therefore hiding them. By bringing them out, you will approach | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| true that the real self comes out of hiding. But in the very rarest of instances -- | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| difficulties are removed, they continue to slumber in hiding and you cannot do anything to remove the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be misled when you find an unrealistic current hiding behind a rational excuse. You must look under | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| benefit and the harm that truth can bring. Hiding the inner sense behind symbols is one way | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| those which slumber underground. Take them out of hiding and view them in the clear light of | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| real self out. In fact, you are desperately hiding it. The idealized self-image may assume many forms | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Consequently, they have to be hidden. This double hiding causes inversion and has serious repercussions on the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of their negative emotions, which they keep in hiding and which come to the fore only when | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| you cannot help but feel, you are busy hiding such feelings from yourself and others. How can | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| learn to take your emotional reactions out of hiding. In either case, you rise and fall by | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the need. Awareness is driven even more into hiding and that causes you to pursue gratification compulsively | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| futile, to run away and protect yourself by hiding. There is no room for consideration of anything | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you will find out without a doubt that hiding the truth is what causes rejection. This is | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| itself, but because of the reason that necessitated hiding it. Such unawareness, that once was deliberate, really | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| the mind wants to build a spiritual state, hiding the actual emotions, it is destructive. If the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| are constantly interrupted by your ingrained habit of hiding, moralizing, and justifying. You may succeed once, but | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| going to pass. There is no superimposition, no hiding, no shifting of emotions. In depression the outer | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| never crush you or put you back into hiding. But this freedom, this organic growing process, happens | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| this voice once you bring it out of hiding. When you understand its nature, and see it | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| gave me, I found out that I was hiding my guilt about my mother behind something else | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| idea came to me that perhaps I am hiding my real guilt because I am egocentric? ANSWER | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| fear removed before it is fully out of hiding, with all its ramifications. If you stop struggling | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the underlying negative emotions are still kept in hiding; they simply make themselves known in connection with | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| guilt about your lower self and the consequent hiding of it, you do everything to nourish its | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| causes the opposite to happen. By repressing and hiding them, the forces that could easily be dealt | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| causes this creative instinct to remain self-centered, in hiding and, if expressed at all, to come out | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| pretense and who therefore believe they are not hiding anything. But then there is a further step | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| this regard. They must be lifted out of hiding and seen in connection with the personal experiences | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| very strongly before it is brought out of hiding. After this crucial liberation, you will no longer | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| emotional need into something bad. This fact requires hiding, denying, repression. The existing energy does not dissolve | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| To find it, to lift it out of hiding, is so very important. It is a vast | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| that the obstructions are let out of their hiding place -- the unconscious. Then, and then only | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| need to be isolated, without the burden of hiding your true self. Do not dissipate the energy | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to make you into an acceptable person, meanwhile hiding in fear from yourself, you will determine what | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| nurtures destructive wishes and desires. You begin by hiding it from others but end up hiding it | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| by hiding it from others but end up hiding it also from yourself. Therefore you lose contact | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| long as a part of you remains in hiding, you live by proxy, as it were. It | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| You can easily find the vague feeling of hiding something if you set out to do so | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| -- meeting the whole of yourself without further hiding. To the degree that you were willing to | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| wrong, self-defeating way -- namely by denial and hiding -- you must be in constant friction with | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| lately if by doing so I have been hiding something that is deeper in me and that | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| particular conflict in you is brought out of hiding. Inside the reality of the inner center, the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| so that you notice your shame and your hiding and learn to uncover yourself, you will finally | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| vital acceptance of others, or your ways of hiding your shameful submission, often by an apparently opposite | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you thus become aware of how you were hiding from life because of these fears, my words | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| path. You can look at your negations without hiding. You can acknowledge them. You can observe your | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| do this, you inactivate destructiveness, without denying or hiding it. When you deny your malice and egotism | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| only truth. When you take it out of hiding, the wonderful reality dawns on you that there | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| The more you use this key and stop hiding behind the ills of others, the more you | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| waits for you to take it out of hiding. This will lead you to a fuller experiencing | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| can deal with it. All repression and all hiding create vicious circles and negative chain reactions: the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| self. The mask self is your pretense, your hiding, your facade for the world. It is the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| consciousness, impressing will be strong. No defenses and hiding are needed, so your soul substance will be | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| In experiencing real pain, you stop controlling, manipulating, hiding -- the pain simply is. You approach the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| turn, resistance to truth compounds this fear. The hiding becomes forever more difficult and exposure forever more | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| The latter must not push the former into hiding again. This ought to be strictly avoided - | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and must not, drive your destructive intentions into hiding again. One of the most important attitudes to | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| is necessary to give up the dishonesty, the hiding, the projecting, and the game playing that exist | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| a very realistic and well-proportioned manner, without exaggeration, hiding, or dramatization. It is possible to recognize the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| need to punish yourself. The negative attitude of hiding from yourself what you are doing and really | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| ability grows from giving up your stake in hiding, projecting, denying, and distorting; it grows from giving | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| and wholeness. Once the investment in pretense and hiding is given up, it is no longer a | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| your pathwork that you explore yourself and stop hiding the negative part of yourself. For the more | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| afraid of. It is precisely because of this hiding that you compound the very attitudes you most | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| more destructive just because of your methods of hiding. For hiding always requires projecting your real guilt | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| just because of your methods of hiding. For hiding always requires projecting your real guilt on others | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| fear and shame of them must be overcome; hiding and camouflaging or whitewashing must have stopped; exaggerated | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| as you come out of the hypocrisy and hiding of the little ego. You will lose your | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| beautiful, wise, strong, loving force. It is in hiding that the worst in you becomes puny and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| person's love as long as you stay in hiding and separation and keep up your pretenses. Many | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| free yourself of the real guilt of your hiding and your pretenses, of disguising your hidden agenda | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| want. For a while you may succeed in hiding this fact from yourself by ardently attempting to | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| be, you suffer the uncertainty that comes from hiding from yourself. Thus you find it impossible to | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| can begin to give yourself honest recognition without hiding and justifications. Most of all, you can open | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| that wants to rule selfishly and cruelly. In hiding this tendency you project it outward, so that | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| in achieving this openness, rather than denying or hiding it. If you do not expose your difficulty | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| or another person wishes to involve you in hiding something negative or destructive. If these secrets were | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| conjunction with others -- is perfectly aware of hiding something negative; otherwise it would be unnecessary to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| live without fear and anxiety, without shame and hiding, without pretenses and facades. The relief of this | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| so desperately try to create and preserve by hiding. If your self-revealing seems to elicit more criticism | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| you which has nothing to hide, for which hiding seems utterly absurd, and being totally transparent is | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| relations are more marked by secretiveness, pretense, and hiding than any other relationship. Openness is not even | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| to hide. Imagine the feeling of no longer hiding anything from anyone. Imagine the liberation of shedding | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| can stream forth only when the confinement of hiding is removed. The process of self-unfoldment begins with | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| and forth. As one layer or aspect of hiding is dissolved, new qualities and assets that you | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| shape. Then you return to other areas of hiding that you had not even been clearly aware | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| can only produce more justifications of such negation, hiding the vistas that harbor the most realistically grounded | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |