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| committed to collectivism, and half the world to individualism. Just recently the Pope called for an ecumenical | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| under the guise of nonconformity, especially if such individualism is very strained and too great a point | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| emphasis began to focus more on the individual. Individualism became very important and has continued to increase | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| And there are those who accuse practitioners of individualism of being opposed to love and brotherhood. Both | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the movement as much as those who use individualism as a cover for their inability to be | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| swing slightly too much in the direction of individualism. They then rebel against the group and deny | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| particular instance, the dualistic principle proclaims that either individualism is right and group consciousness wrong or bad | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| always straining to maintain an exaggerated independence and individualism at the expense of others, out of fear | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
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| the ego is identical with the sense of individuality the personality has. But one has nothing to | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and reduce awareness, and thus the sense of individuality in the personality. One day the ego must | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| must be overcome and the merging accomplished. Then individuality will not only not be relinquished, but will | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Jewish and Christian concept deals only with the individuality of the soul, which truly and eternally exists | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| thus not at all the case that the individuality is dissolved and annihilated. If it were so | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| easy to understand how the concept that the individuality ceases to exist came into being. Nevertheless, it | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| ever dissolves, especially not the spirit. And the individuality, in its pure form, that is without ego | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| maintained in its essence, that is, in its individuality. For what is of the spirit is alive | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| never dissolves, it exists forever and in its individuality. Do you understand this? QUESTION: Yes. And of | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| He would confirm that, on the contrary, the individuality, the capacity for personal experience, will only increase | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Although there is a melting and dissolving, the individuality, the I-consciousness is not lost. Again and again | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| stream. This does not mean the annihilation of individuality as a thinking being capable of making decisions | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| certain forms in accordance with their own particular individuality. So there are all forms of recreation in | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| your work to get to know the special individuality of your higher self so as to use | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| as they clamor for the expression of your individuality in a manner that does not necessarily correspond | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you recognize what causes you to suppress your individuality with all its manifestations. The expression of your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| by bullying the child, and not allowing its individuality to unfold. Both kinds fall short as parents | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| not important. Another illusion misinterprets the right to individuality; it claims that you are a separate being | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| inner error, that you are fighting for your individuality and happiness when in fact you struggle to | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you have more rather than less dignity and individuality because of this fact. Your dignity will increase | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of brook, lake, or geyser, according to its individuality. But the intrinsic quality of purity and life-giving | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a process of inner and natural growth. Your individuality will then become stronger and stronger. Your intuitive | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| love, from lack of understanding of its own individuality, from a general uncertainty in the atmosphere or | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| The nature of the core is flexibility and individuality. Although it is human to be selfish, it | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and insipid, that it has no variation, no individuality, humor, pleasure, and wit. You ascribe all that | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| diversified as badness. Only it has more humor, individuality, pleasure, because in health and maturity -- which | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| and react from the core of your very individuality will you reach and affect the core of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| The richness of your spirit, of your human individuality, will unfold with all its strength. When you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| that alienates you from the core of your individuality. You will realize in you that which had | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| alienated from themselves experience the richness of their individuality. They experience their own power. They trust in | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| be replenished only within the center of your individuality, when you no longer believe in pretense and | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| experience the joy that comes from your own individuality. This is so because your demands are incompatible | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| from not being fully accepted in its own individuality. By this I mean the common practice of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| former. The constant climate of non-acceptance of your individuality, as well as the lack of love and | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| with the cosmic stream of your life, your individuality. This is what being in peace with oneself | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| expand. Your psychic life processes reach out, your individuality stretches and expresses the potential beauty of life | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the psyche. Therefore, in order to preserve one's individuality, the only available way appears to be building | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| sense of identity and seems to preserve one's individuality. Yet only in a negative context does loss | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| fear of death, the fear of having no individuality, no consciousness. This fear can be met only | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| is not a giving up of personality, of individuality or consciousness -- not by any means. You | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| life. Thus you equate your physical separateness with individuality. It is of course true that a weak | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| weak and ineffectual ego diminishes your sense of individuality. Hence the ego must be strengthened, but for | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| up this ego state means annihilation of your individuality, which, of course, is utterly erroneous. So, you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| operating in you and expressing itself through your individuality, integrating your ego faculties with its universal self | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| with its universal self. Such integration enhances your individuality; it does not diminish it. It enhances every | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| of the individual. It does not level off individuality, nor does it imply mediocrity in the least | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| not needing to be special means giving up individuality or even accepting mediocrity? The answer is that | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| nothing, you will get yourself in trouble. Then individuality cannot unfold because ego, vanity, and ruthlessness take | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| that not only do you not lose your individuality, but, quite the contrary: you expand and become | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the outer ego is all there is to individuality. This is the root of the fear to | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| and they thereby lose the integrity of their individuality. They fear their submission to and dependency on | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| it make me do? I will lose my individuality, I will lose control. The good feelings seem | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| negative ones regarding the loss of control and individuality. The fear may exist that the good feelings | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| -- love, affection, warmth, acceptance of its own individuality. Both soul and body require pleasure; without it | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| her self-surrender justified and dignified, and enhancing her individuality. Giving up the determining ego will be for | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| this truth, without, however, losing a sense of individuality. This can be felt very distinctly when you | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| sensitivity is not a sign of a unique individuality in the divine sense. It is a distortion | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| the resistance with capitulation, with giving up his individuality. Many of you are aware of this and | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| on some valid reasons peculiarly suited to your individuality, or whatever other explanations you may concoct. Do | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| trait but rather adapt it to your unique individuality. Somewhere along your path you will have gained | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| cosmic force in terms of your community, your individuality, and your growth. The planet Earth is an | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| what was gained through the emphasis on, say individuality, can then further the group consciousness, and what | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| lessons learned recently in the phase of high individuality can now be brought into the new phase | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and warmth to be happy. The greater the individuality, the better your integration with the group consciousness | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| who believe that group living is contradictory to individuality. And there are those who accuse practitioners of | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| enriching it. You can find your privacy and individuality totally intact, your group living and intimacy totally | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| differences will disappear. This does not mean that individuality and very individual self-expression will disappear. By no | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| others, out of fear of conforming, of losing individuality? And is it not just as true, on | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| my sexual feelings being sinful, my surge for individuality, autonomy and self- expression being sinful. I would | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| be a prideful stubbornness, a false sense of individuality. Genuine individuality can never be associated with any | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| prideful stubbornness, a false sense of individuality. Genuine individuality can never be associated with any group consciousness | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| any group consciousness, religion, nationality, political party. True individuality blossoms only when God's truth is sought in | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| false images, emotional tightnesses and the displacement of individuality into any kind of societal traditionalism. The suffering | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| on a larger scale -- always. So your individuality is a cell of the Pathwork entity. The | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| through you will no longer be confused about individuality versus community; about self-surrender versus selfhood and real | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| you fear giving up what you call your individuality. You believe that your uniqueness, your particular divine | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |