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be made brings incredible liberation from guilt, unhappiness, frustration, from helplessly waiting for something that others can 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
bliss that knows neither lack nor unfulfillment or frustration. Without an ego these strivings are unrealistic, even 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
yourself, weakening your energies and courting disappointment and frustration. If you understand, however, that all inner processes 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
is attached to a negative condition, difficulty and frustration must follow. The question is often asked why 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
possibilities and fulfillment; in distortion, the desire becomes frustration. Desire and frustration appear the same in the 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
in distortion, the desire becomes frustration. Desire and frustration appear the same in the psyche and are 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
then fluctuates between the equally undesirable states of frustration and satiation. When the self is no longer 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
you meet yourself equally freely and openly -- frustration is indeed inevitable. Yet partial fulfillment does occur 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
fear it when it remains unfulfilled because the frustration hurts the soul. And you fear it when 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
constantly fluctuate between the two equally undesirable alternatives: frustration and satiation. Only when you are no longer 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
act in a way that produces hopelessness, fear, frustration, feelings of doubt. I will now deliberately contact 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
in your life that you encounter trouble and frustration, because the falseness of the conviction makes you 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
sorrow and suffering, isolation and conflict, guilt and frustration must cease. Then people do not have to 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
luck or bad luck, for their fulfillment or frustration. This is why self-confrontation and seeing what one 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
be no effort in receiving and therefore no frustration. The person will no longer feel cheated because 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
not fully understood must result in failure and frustration. How can the present situation be fully understood 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
negative chain reaction, with all its pain and frustration, will you long to return, step by step 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
only failure, but pressure, difficulty, wrong timing, and frustration. Things do not work out. When closely observed 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
in God! 149. COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION Greetings, my dearest friends. Be blessed, every one 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
The feature I want to talk about is frustration. Like all human attitudes, frustration can easily be 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
talk about is frustration. Like all human attitudes, frustration can easily be distorted into two opposites, both 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
destructive. Everyone knows that the inability to tolerate frustration constitutes a severe personality disturbance and impairs one's 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
severe personality disturbance and impairs one's character. When frustration is not handled properly, it inflicts pain on 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
on others. The traits that impede coping with frustration are greed, self-centeredness, blindness, and fear. The person 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
the same underlying problem. The wrong attitude about frustration is harmful for obvious reasons. It impairs relationships 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
self-respect, and inner peace. I shall now discuss frustration as it relates to the pleasure principle. The 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
pleasure, is in its blindness incapable of tolerating frustration because it ignores future possibilities. When the psyche 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
apparent contradiction ensues: the less one can endure frustration, the less one experiences the pleasure. Rigidly insistent 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
mind. When you misunderstand the importance of tolerating frustration, distorted responses, such as martyrdom, abstinence, and resignation 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
considered unimportant. But the other distorted response to frustration, insistence and rigidity with a do or die 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
the blocks that constrict you. The topic of frustration is directly linked with our first topic. When 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
so, you would not ever have to fear frustration, unfulfillment, or emptiness. Since you fear and block 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
experience the fear of nonfulfillment. Inability to tolerate frustration actually results from the fear of nonfulfillment. Fear 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
endure the emptiness, and they struggle against any frustration. The adamant demand for instant gratification says, I 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
the universe. This is, of course, utterly impossible. Frustration would not be an issue if the cosmic 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
disharmony existed, meaning where waste existed, fulfillment where frustration existed, pleasure supreme where pain and deprivation existed 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
to finding a numbness that causes despair and frustration, because it leads to self-alienation and disconnectedness of 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
depends on the ability to assimilate pain and frustration in an appropriate and truthful way, in the 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
stilted, premeditated attitudes that make all spontaneity impossible. Frustration and emptiness increase anger and rage, thus fear 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
put on the importance of giving out. The frustration resulting from not sufficiently receiving has been overemphasized 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
been overemphasized in the last decades, while the frustration of not sufficiently giving has been very much 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
comprehend the far worse pain caused by the frustration of not giving what you have. The overemphasis 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
longer thwart yourself. You will no longer inflict frustration and therefore pain upon yourself, because the immense 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
liberation and well-being require equal attention to the frustration of not giving and not being able to 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
very means that continually reproduces the rejection and frustration. In other words, you will connect the feeling 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to hurt the female sex out of anger, frustration and revenge, the sexual force has entered into 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
delight. Thus the vicious circle continues. The continued frustration, which you believe to be caused by the 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
how to correct an unnecessary condition of fear, frustration, and pain. For even those of you who 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
sorrow and unhappiness, all emptiness and unfulfillment, all frustration and suffering are caused by being disconnected -- 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
shrinks away from it in terror. The resulting frustration confuses you, frightens you, and makes you feel 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
which increase the unconscious denial, destructiveness and conscious frustration. The soul movements in two opposite directions make 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
the sense of refusing to accept a possible frustration or denial. If you were to express your 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
the truth of life. All the pain and frustration the average human being goes through in the 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
on one force, thwarts life and produces displeasure, frustration, and restriction. When men and women have not 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
affect life; and it leads to more separation, frustration, and unhappiness -- to the painful tension produced 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
topic here, is the experience of pain and frustration. You have been indoctrinated for millennia with the 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
indoctrinated for millennia with the conviction that any frustration is pain. That is why it is so 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
and relaxation are different aspects of pleasure. Unless frustration ceases to be a threat so that the 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
behind your curtain of fear. Your conviction that frustration is pain and perhaps even danger makes you 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
out of you, you should experiment with any frustration that comes along the next time. Ask yourself 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
You will learn to let the pain, the frustration, be. You will let its movement be by 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
such frantic, struggling movements against the pain and frustration that it is impossible to come to the 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
away from self- responsibility, deny any sort of frustration, want to get by with giving nothing and 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
grasping, needless denial. The consequences are pain and frustration. This is all the more confusing when you 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
more violent your anger grows from this uninterrupted frustration. Then this anger frightens you, so that you 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
myself. Whenever I feel threatened by rejection, criticism, frustration of my immediate desires, I at once withdraw 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
and the life side must fight against this frustration. Any kind of numbing process, any attempt to 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
fight and self-division. When you fear hurt, disappointment, frustration, you fear experience per se. If you fear 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
becomes obvious that fear of emotional experience breeds frustration, discontent and emptiness which, in turn, gives rise 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
life. In turn, you fight against the inevitable frustration that results from these divided motivations. Here you 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
good illustration of the process: fighting such a frustration blindly and destructively cannot eliminate its cause. Yet 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
such a frustrating life? Only by accepting the frustration can you understand it and eliminate its cause 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
cause. Only going through the experience of the frustration can bring to the surface the emotions that 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
which numbs the feelings, which in turn creates frustration. Again I want to emphasize for the benefit 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
inner knowledge did not exist, you could accept frustration and lack with much less difficulty. For the 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
difficulty. For the very nature of unhappiness is frustration at not having what you want. Therefore each 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
fruitful life experience, or the pain, suffering, and frustration you have to bear. Unfulfillment is not even 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
Expansion and bliss belong together, as stagnation and frustration belong together. Expansion is a self-activating process that 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
face them, all their feelings are affected. The frustration and hopelessness that result from such conflicts increase 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
Moreover, misconception must lead to unfulfillment and therefore frustration and disappointment -- which, in turn, produce resentments 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
dependency on another's good opinion, by fear of frustration and inability to stand non-gratification. You thus will 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
that such a predicament induces feelings of resentment, frustration, anger, self-hate, guilt? And is it not natural 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
continue a vicious circle. The result must be frustration and limitation, which you then assume to be 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION Greetings, my friends. May my words reach your 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
up the life and energy centers. Fear of frustration is an important example of error creating tension 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
being is not, to begin with, afraid of frustration? This fear must be overcome, for it is 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
is an error in itself. The state of frustration always implies something that makes you want to 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
makes you want to fight unnecessarily against the frustration. This forces you to remain in a state 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
out of your vague thinking and feeling processes. Frustration is not dangerous or disastrous. Heed and recognize 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
recognize this, my friends. Observe your reactions to frustration. How do you react to anything undesirable that 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
hear that true self-fulfillment means the end of frustration. Now, although this is true, you cannot ever 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
this is true, you cannot ever end your frustration by fearing it and thus cramping up against 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
neither of two alternatives unduly intensifies your functioning. Frustration will cease to exist exactly to the extent 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
accept in a realistic and constructive way that frustration is an integral part of the present reality 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
reality. The childish desire for omnipotence which bans frustration cannot actualize the human being's divine powers where 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
of view of his or her attitude toward frustration by observing the following stages: 1)The most 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
and therefore troubled state is one in which frustration appears to be disaster. Hence fear and tension 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
best faculties to eventually overcome or diminish the frustration. The mature person accepts this level of reality 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
that limitations are present reality and that therefore frustration must also exist. This attitude holds true for 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
attitude has learned to encounter and deal with frustration, she or he can reach the ultimate state 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
on your real attitude toward any kind of frustration. It will give you a good gauge of 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
will also see that by tensing up against frustration you cause much more frustration for yourself, for 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
tensing up against frustration you cause much more frustration for yourself, for the very tension is a 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
condition outside you create anywhere near as much frustration as you inflict upon yourself by tensing up 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
life centers because of your defensive fear of frustration, you perpetually frustrate yourself. A great deal of 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
life, hopeless longing, a sense of futility and frustration from which you see no way out. The 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
your grain, whenever you experience any degree of frustration, you tend to bring in your original reactions 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
a precautionary attitude, just because you might experience frustration, delay, criticism, or the negativity of others. I 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
same thing. Unawareness of this struggle leads to frustration and discontent, as well as to blaming others 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
the ability to deal realistically and constructively with frustration; being true to the issue, the self, the 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
of spirit; self-alienation; the false, destructive reaction to frustration; living for the sake of approval and impressing 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
Thus, the person must experience lack, rejection, and frustration. He or she then builds defenses against these 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
The first is the ability to deal with frustration, with life apparently saying No to you. It 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
justified and inviting. The former way -- bearing frustration -- implies the willingness to accept our premise 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
reveals itself to you. Until such time, the frustration must be borne in a productive way. There 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
and destructive way, both to accepting and rejecting frustration in life. The right kind of acceptance automatically 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
brings along the right kind of rejection of frustration. Right acceptance is the awareness and willingness to 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
the awareness and willingness to see that every frustration is self-produced and voluntarily pushed out of sight 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
the right acceptance with the right rejection of frustration. Wrong acceptance of frustration leads to wrong rejection 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
the right rejection of frustration. Wrong acceptance of frustration leads to wrong rejection of it, and vice 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
of it, and vice versa. When you dramatize frustration as annihilation of your world, it soon becomes 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
-- hopelessness, resignation, doom. When the small, momentary frustration or difficulty or disappointment is dramatized into a 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
is clearly illustrated here. Acceptance and rejection of frustration are not opposites but can form a beautiful 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
the right way of accepting and rejecting a frustration of life, you possess yourself. You truly own 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
into the wrong way of accepting and rejecting frustration in life, you become alienated from yourself. You 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
when none exists. If you learn to handle frustration and remain true to the ultimate reality of 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
important because of your inability to cope with frustration. There is also an element of spite in 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
of pain -- the pain of loneliness and frustration. But contact makes it difficult to maintain the 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
and by the willingness to give and receive. Frustration indicates an absence of contact, which, in turn 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
doing right in order to avoid unpleasantness or frustration. Also, the less developed person is always caught 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
few: lack of energy, anxiety, depression, hopelessness, illness, frustration, failures, feelings of inadequacy, pleasurelessness, listlessness. All these 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
the way to cope well with the temporary frustration of this desire. What are the common denominators 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
and the presence of trust. If you fear frustration, unfulfillment, and their consequences, the tension of your 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
principle is most obvious in the case of frustration and anger. Many people can see relatively easily 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
Many people can see relatively easily that the frustration itself is less difficult to bear than their 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
itself is less difficult to bear than their frustration at being frustrated. The same is true of 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
Thus the crises of emotions such as anger, frustration, impatience, and depression are not recognized for what 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
Resistance is partly an expression of avoiding the frustration of wanting something that cannot be done and 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
choice to live in a constant state of frustration and unfulfillment. Physically this creates, of course, all 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
with its very worst. Mental confusion creates more frustration and anger. The faulty interpretations which are supposed 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
the person is always missing mutuality only increase frustration, and therefore anger and hate. On the emotional 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
and you find yourself in a frenzy of frustration, bitterness and tension. Alternatively, you may manage also 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
you accept your split, a great deal of frustration is eliminated -- but by no means all 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
consciousness, to that extent you foster your ongoing frustration. You perpetuate negation of life and negativity of 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
totally egotistical and therefore unwilling to accept any frustration, little or big; you are unwilling to deal 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
willing, this will no longer present a debilitating frustration for you. You no longer depend on proving 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
to accept the anger, and on and on. Frustration itself is bearable when you fully go into 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
pathwork. The same is true with fear, anger, frustration, or whatever the feeling may be. Thus, when 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
hurt to your pride or a rejection, or frustration of your will or desires -- in all 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
insatiable demands, such as to be spared all frustration, to never be criticized, to be always loved 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
Since these needs can never be fulfilled, continuous frustration and emptiness wipe out hope, blacken vision, and 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
unfulfillment, to a hurt, a criticism, or a frustration. It is then possible to recognize the unreal 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
by looking at your life, your suffering, your frustration, and your unfulfilled longings. All levels must be 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
to the fore and begin functioning. So much frustration is incurred when people push with their outer 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
effect, that is, between lack of commitment and frustration, creates the need to seek the wrong kind 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
given up and adjusted to unnecessary deprivation and frustration. There is still much work to be done 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
that it causes you and others pain and frustration, unfulfillment, and perpetual guilt and longing. It is 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
go on punishing the world for this painful frustration. You dare not turn to the wondrous magnificence 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
worry, hopelessness, and often physical illness and material frustration as well. One of the most popular ways 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
a part of you which denies pain and frustration; a place where you are angry and spiteful 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
of pain, together with its derivatives, such as frustration, disappointment, rejection, and believe that you must not 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
the person lives in a treadmill of perpetual frustration which then seems to justify his or her 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
will be able to handle even pain and frustration if necessary, so that reality which is ultimately 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
can come to you. The ability to take frustration and pain are essential to giving and receiving 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
movement toward fusion. For instance, quite often when frustration is ascribed to sexual incompatibility, the sexual incompatibility 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
than what you consider outer reality. The infant's frustration when its thoughts and wishes do not instantly 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
plant and their results causes unnecessary pain and frustration. Often you see the result only much later 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
you are unwilling to deal with pain or frustration. Or you may simply experience the inner movement 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
ego implies masochistic suffering and deprivation, poverty, and frustration of personal fulfillment and needs. As a matter 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
quality I just described, the inability to accept frustration, which is childish or immature. It is the 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
see the place where you create unhappiness and frustration. It cannot be any other way. The human 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
hopelessness. The refusal to endure any kind of frustration creates an inner tension and defensive structure that 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
are doing this, you create obstructions, unhappiness, strife, frustration, crisis, and finally destruction, so that the old 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
closing the heart, creating resentment, hate, and therefore frustration and blame of the other sex, the benign 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
the realities you have already created, such as frustration, pain, difficulties, struggle. Obviously this distortion is destructive 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
friends. 237. LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION My most beloved friends, I greet you with 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
a painful conflict in yourself and you create frustration. True leadership cannot exist under these circumstances, for 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
to even consider is the proper attitude toward frustration. We have discussed this before, but I still 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
personality can only come when the dichotomy of frustration versus fulfillment has been conciliated. Now how can 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
the fulfillment of the desire by eliminating all frustration. Thus you never learn how to transcend frustration 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
frustration. Thus you never learn how to transcend frustration so it can no longer occur. Of course 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
be sure that as long as you experience frustration you have to learn from it. What kind 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
What kind of approach would be fruitful toward frustration and would eventually lead to its transcendence? When 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
I will learn a lesson from this particular frustration and will not act as if it were 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
your reaction of utter disgust and outrage about frustration, your fear and anger about it, and to 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
step on the ladder of learning to transcend frustration is the active, deliberate and renewed search for 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
renewed search for the meaning of any particular frustration. What does the particular frustration you are dealing 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
of any particular frustration. What does the particular frustration you are dealing with at this time have 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
and I deliberately repeat it, there is no frustration that does not contain a joyful, valuable, liberating 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
are so bent on battling the occurrence of frustration that the lesson gets lost and you pass 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
more rigid you will become, the worse the frustration will appear, the more the frustrations will grow 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
to discover you have created the illusion that frustration is an enemy. The overwhelming experience has the 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
the capacity to loosen up the tightness against frustration and consequently against all of life. Frustration is 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
against frustration and consequently against all of life. Frustration is a friend, my friends. You can make 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
wisdom, liberation, will already alter your outlook toward frustration, so that when another such lesson comes you 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
the consciousness behind all things, even behind the frustration. This is obviously a substantial step toward conciliating 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
a substantial step toward conciliating the dichotomy of frustration versus fulfillment. The further step on the ladder 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
deliberately repeat them here, for they apply to frustration as well. As you approach frustration through the 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
apply to frustration as well. As you approach frustration through the steps I have proposed here, the 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
I have proposed here, the point of the frustration will narrow; you will perhaps be able to 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
and let yourself fully experience that point of frustration, after you have learned the lesson it has 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
divinity of life, the divinity of a particular frustration. And it will no longer be a frustration 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
frustration. And it will no longer be a frustration. It will become the highest fulfillment imaginable, much 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
the fulfillment you craved for, away from the frustration. That, of course, my beloved friends, is the 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
friends, is the point where you have overcome frustration, where you have mastered and truly transcended it 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
it. Not only will you no longer fear frustration, not only do you now know that you 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
where there is God and fulfillment within the frustration. This is your road, my friends. This is 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
leader, in the positive sense, has totally transcended frustration in this way. But I will say that 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
the degree true leadership exists, the attitude toward frustration is fairly mature and realistic and no longer 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
of selfishness, of the insistence to never experience frustration, of unlovingness and ungivingness, of ego aggrandizement, of 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
attain freedom. When you protest indignantly about every frustration that life puts in your way, you believe 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
love. When you identify love with indulgence, and frustration with hate, then you are constantly confused, distorting 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
boundaries you transcend them most meaningfully. Soon your frustration will become a new doorway to freedom. What 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
state in which you cannot bear a little frustration. You are already in a state in which 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
already in a state in which a little frustration can become a threshold to freedom and expansion 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
peace of mind. Conflicting perceptions, confusion, and therefore frustration, will disappear. Enlightenment and insight into apparent conflicts 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
your environment, or any kind of unfulfillment or frustration, there the underlying cause must be that you 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
restitution for your guilt leads to confusion and frustration. These, in turn, are often projected onto others 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
of pain -- the pain of confusion and frustration and the pain of unrestituted guilt. They are 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
others. You do not want to experience any frustration or necessary discipline. When these goals remain unreachable 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
other voice, which never wants to tolerate any frustration. It must become clear to you, my beloved 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
line of least resistance, who never imposes any frustration, who offers this kind of utopia, also creates 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS

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