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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
 
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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

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