| Infantile...................22 | |
| oriental religions. ANSWER: The sexual impulse in the infantile and immature personality is entirely self- centered and | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not? Because as a child you kept the infantile sex drive hidden. You were often made to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fear, caused your sexuality to remain almost as infantile as when you were a child. QUESTION: Will | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| learn to see, face, and give up the infantile concept of happiness, rulership, and perfection. The idealized | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| of the lower self's growing out of the infantile state. But the superimposed conscience hides also the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| no longer suppressed. Hence, one cannot say that infantile traits cease to exist when a person becomes | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| question of degree. To the degree that this infantile attitude toward the world exists, the person is | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| simultaneously insist upon as a result of your infantile self-centeredness and subjectivity in outlook. As you mature | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| functioned, often with much effort to overcome the infantile drives to destroy what stood in the way | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| are always those who act according to these infantile drives and whose sense of responsibility for others | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| by unrealistic concepts, wrong conclusions, self- centered and infantile pursuits, limited outlooks, lack of concern, subjectivity and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and their aims will represent the entity's unconscious infantile, erroneous, short-sighted and destructive elements. But the more | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| suffering and peace, between helplessness and self-determination, between infantile dependency -- be it on another authority or | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| tense desire comes from fear caused by the infantile belief that you will be annihilated if you | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| an expression of a super-tense will that your infantile insistence on having what you want right away | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| when you have a dialogue and reeducate the infantile, ignorant aspects of yourself; you are active when | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| the suffering of others. Thus you fluctuate between infantile dependency, in the illusion that you are helpless | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| this truthful admission. And as you accept the infantile egocentricity within you, you light another candle. For | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| can grow. Only in the acceptance of the infantile egocentricity can you find the birth of the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| all know exists in infants and in the infantile aspects of adults as well. In that distorted | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| another absolutely essential quality of leadership that the infantile personality lacks and is unwilling to even consider | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| manipulate reality around you to suit your most infantile misconceptions and unreal needs for instant gratification. You | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Infants.....................9 | |
| blind, those human beings who are still spiritual infants, seek selfish ends and believe that their selfishness | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| rule. ANSWER: No. You can choose to remain infants, if you so desire. You do not have | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| fifty years or so, was the idea that infants do not experience erotic or sexual pleasure. The | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| erotic or sexual pleasure. The truth is that infants experience physical pleasure more strongly than the average | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| All human beings contain within their psyches the infants they once were. And the infant responds and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and is indeed no longer helpless and dependent. Infants and young children truly are helpless and dependent | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| hardly need to mention that not only actual infants make egocentric and antagonistic claims to omnipotence. Undeveloped | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| very understandable and even appropriate when you were infants and small children. But you hold on to | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| for omnipotence that you all know exists in infants and in the infantile aspects of adults as | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Infant's....................9 | |
| born. It exists in the small infant. The infant's idea of happiness is fulfillment of all its | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| tend to prohibit the natural flow of an infant's participation in the life force, its experience of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| pseudo-solutions, misconceptions and inner conflicts arise from the infant's struggle between attaining pleasure and avoiding pain. The | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| struggle between attaining pleasure and avoiding pain. The infant's fusing of pain and pleasure as a way | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| This limitation and ignorance -- just like the infant's -- made them dependent. The more they manifested | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| deal with this kind of blindness. The egotistical infant's antisocial desires and claims, convictions and attitudes must | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| fully aware of every aspect of this destructive infant's beliefs and attitudes. This is why the first | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Psychology designates this very obvious expression of the infant's claim to omnipotence as immaturity and destructive egocentricity | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| real than what you consider outer reality. The infant's frustration when its thoughts and wishes do not | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Infer.......................4 | |
| what I have discussed tonight, you could easily infer that there can be no grace of God | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| this phenomenon, which it calls transference. You may infer from this lecture that the truth goes farther | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the mere consideration of such a possibility would infer overestimation of yourself, giving yourself airs that you | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| of these longings is most legitimate. Do not infer from my words that they are wrong and | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Inferior....................41 | |
| envy attached to you. But another person, not inferior to you in his or her overall development | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| why there are so many people who are inferior to others and yet are much happier. This | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you have what you call better races and inferior races. That, of course is karmic for both | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| children. For the child, being different means being inferior. When he grows up this trend sometimes remains | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| as you are now. You must therefore feel inferior because you are not able to live up | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| this by itself could never make you feel inferior. Without your artificially high standards, you would not | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| argues, I have failed. I know I am inferior, but perhaps, if I could just receive a | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| rationalizations. To the extent you feel insecure and inferior there must be a side in you, maybe | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the measure that you despise yourself you feel inferior because in some way you are dishonest with | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| of yourself. Not knowing why you feel so inferior makes you feel so hopeless. If you only | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the wrong motive makes you feel even more inferior. Then, on the next turn, in order to | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| life you are all the more guilty and inferior, and therefore becoming more hopeless than ever, is | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| If I cannot get it, then I am inferior. Needless to say that this is a wrong | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| God, one feels all the more guilty and inferior. Guilt cannot remedy this situation. You can only | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| a woman who is supposed to be his inferior. He might discuss a neutral topic, but when | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| acutely feel the dependent, wanting, needing parent as inferior, while the one who rejects these wants and | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| mature are blocked by a superimposed level, vastly inferior to the intuition. Such overemphasis on the reasoning | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| for other people resent being made to feel inferior and will certainly not respond by loving those | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| implies that you have failed because you are inferior. Your fear of responsibility is not so great | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| but this has nothing to do with feeling inferior. The more you feel worthless and as nothing | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| rather than feeling your vulnerability, which seems an inferior place. Anger lifts you above the true position | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| to live with something that is by far inferior to your own will, the will of your | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| does not write commits a crime or is inferior, then, in addition to the simple wish to | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and their perceptions. They may be feeling so inferior that they do not trust their intuition at | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| always right, then I fall back into my inferior state, is recognized, then all is well, and | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| whole division of a superior world and an inferior world is an illusion. This discovery will set | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| to the misconception that you are unlucky and inferior. Suddenly the truth of divine order will come | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| both, but the ego intelligence is by far inferior to the universal intelligence whether or not you | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| be frightening. You then know perfectly well how inferior, fleeting, and insufficient the ego is as compared | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| he has, and consequently the more insecure and inferior he feels. He must hide his insecurity and | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| permit clarity. It makes you feel even more inferior and unlovable. Your misery seems a just punishment | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| afraid because you think it is bad or inferior or dumb to be a child. But that | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| -- persisted in considering man superior and woman inferior. In order to justify this assumption, woman was | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| will feel superior and believe woman to be inferior. He will consequently exploit her but will also | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| and the feelings close. The moment one feels inferior to the other, resentment, fear, envy become inescapable | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| by an equal. He does not require an inferior mate to convince himself of his acceptability, which | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| that has existed in the past must be inferior or invalid. It overlooks the fact that eternal | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| and faith. Jews looked down on pagans as inferior. They saw themselves as the aristocrats in the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| became one and the same. Jews considered both inferior and hostile. The hostility existed, but instead of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| pagans and Christians are lying, are deluded, are inferior and at the same time they are the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| he has married, in spite of deeming her inferior, yet blot out her reality during the act | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |