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 Helping.....................57
light. God's spirits try continually to extend their helping hand to bring you over those hurdles where 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
souls will be helped to do so. The helping hand will be there. The healing of the 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
Go in peace. 7. ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS Greetings in the name of God. I 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
world, which works with you and around you, helping and guiding you. It will become just as 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
explain this now, but no error is possible. Helping interference by God's world happens occasionally without the 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
those outside of it. The former are perhaps helping, working, cooperating in the great Plan of Salvation 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
guardians and do lower spirits have higher spirits helping them? ANSWER: The lower spirits also have their 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
community. This organization in the spirit world is helping and guiding you, deciding many factors in connection 20 GOD: THE CREATION
whom I am sending out or who are helping with other tasks in connection with the building 20 GOD: THE CREATION
God. And the latter will not lend a helping hand if there is not a very good 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
lesser light and development for the purpose of helping them. When they manifest, they appear to these 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
infinitely healthier to think of other people by helping them, by giving up some selfishness, and by 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
use all their efforts in self-sacrifice for others, helping them to the best of their ability and 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
escape the issue by their strong emphasis on helping others. Again, the help given to others need 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH
soul the reality of the temple you are helping to build, each one of you. We are 35 TURNING TO GOD
degree avoid the formation of an image by helping to draw it to the surface while the 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
you, for it applies to anyone desirous of helping in such a way. The development of psychic 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
where one interferes with the other, instead of helping it along and thereby creating one harmonious whole 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
indirect way they work toward that end by helping in the great plan. QUESTION: Aside from this 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
and enable you to make the best of helping another being and yourself on the way to 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX
is like; only then can you do your helping with conviction. As long as a certain relief 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
only one help and no other. It is helping you to find in yourself that which obstructs 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
mass images are gathered along the way, all helping to fortify this chain reaction. Now, the fear 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
or some other spirit who is capable of helping, then the motive and approach is all right 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
if it is approached with the attitude of helping the spirits. The main point is to cultivate 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the self, of healing the sick currents, of helping the infant in them to mature. That would 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
soul from gaining harmful and hindering knowledge, or helping the soul to regain some favorable knowledge. It 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
strictly avoided by curtailing their outer freedom, while helping them to gain their inner freedom through treatment 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
possible way. May all outer friction be a helping element to thus recognize inner friction. With these 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
supposed to function harmoniously with one another, each helping the other, rather than one subduing the other 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
In compassion, you are strong and capable of helping, of doing something for the other person. In 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
and despising others, rather than understanding, loving, and helping. Although sickness and sin are the same, the 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
now, is the only way, not only for helping yourself, but to help better conditions all over 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
yourself -- perhaps through wise teachings, through a helping hand. But the most reliable and realistic answers 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
the answers to your questions be again a helping hand, a stepping stone, a directive to gain 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
my friends. May all of you who are helping with inner and outer assistance feel the reality 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
question: The technical discoveries are one way of helping humanity to acquire a broader awareness. But if 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
also as an issue in those they are helping. They should remember that to the degree they 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
powerful than any of you realize. But these helping forces can and must do no more than 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
words can ever, by themselves, be responsible for helping you make the transition. But they help you 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
as it sounds, can become very important in helping you honestly question yourself: Do you truly wish 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
have concentrated, in one form or another, on helping you to understand the relationship between ego-consciousness and 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
anything. I say this for the purpose of helping you grow out of it, so that your 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
most truthful, self-revealing way, sharing their inner problems, helping each other, rather than placing mutual guilt on 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
own giving of yourself in truthfulness and the helping power coming through me and the hands of 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
These powers can be utilized for healing, for helping, and for increasing fulfillment and consciousness in the 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
working on their transformation and by whoever is helping them, for everyone has a different rhythm. During 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
though the personality needed this outer grace, this helping hand. For the dishonest placing of guilt on 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
You will experience the deep satisfaction of giving, helping, fulfilling a task, and of being devoted to 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
giving something of yourself to the cause of helping other souls advance to higher states of inner 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
means looking out for your younger friends and helping them, giving them understanding, instead of hitting back 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
my coming lectures I will increasingly concentrate on helping you comprehend the difference between the old values 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
using those who want to use. Rather than helping them to awaken through really fair and appropriate 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
you are specifically directed at this time toward helping you to give over to Him Who holds 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
these various levels through many teachings and on helping you through guidance, inspiration and advice, to alternate 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
and then, as a result of this, by helping to do the same for the entity earth 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
trust and mutual partnership; of sharing and of helping each other. It must be understood that the 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
 
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respective creatures influence humans. Human beings are not helpless prey to these influences, but determine them. And 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
where all images are formed. The child is helpless; it needs to be taken care of; it 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
invite pain and unhappiness just to avoid the helpless feeling of being exposed to it against his 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
upon me against my will, making me a helpless prey. I will call forth the unhappiness myself 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
unhappiness myself! Then I am not quite so helpless. This way out also takes the form of 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
you would then lose your fear of being helpless. You are helpless because you make yourself that 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
lose your fear of being helpless. You are helpless because you make yourself that way by trying 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
You said in your last lecture, You are helpless because you make yourself that way by trying 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you feel or imagine this person to be helpless or weak or dependent, he or she takes 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
in it. If you regard yourself as lost, helpless, a prey to circumstances beyond your control, you 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
it can be changed: that no one is helpless and has to endure a painful fate because 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
and unjustly treated; you will be a self-pitying helpless little bundle -- and you will even like 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
already existent forces does not make you more helpless. On the contrary, that knowledge, if rightly understood 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
with the truth that you are never a helpless prey to the influence of others, nor are 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
to hide something, it will make you as helpless as the object of your attack. Thus you 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
being exposed to others, while one is a helpless victim. All this contributes greatly to the unconscious 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
yourself for your dependency, which makes you feel helpless before those to whom you feel you must 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
which tend to make them weaker and more helpless than they actually are. Taking on more and 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
for such love and dependency actually makes you helpless. You do not cultivate in yourself the faculty 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
toughness that is no more real than the helpless softness of the submissive person, the power type 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
what you crave, while protecting yourself by acting helpless. If the distorted instinct of self-preservation and its 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
at invulnerability, the underlying core may be the helpless child, looking for love and protection; craving pleasure 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
cause frustration and unhappiness. Here you are, the helpless, unloved child -- whether you actually were unloved 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in you it seems much better to remain helpless, to force the powerful adult world, or God 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
soul-crippling attitude finally succeeds in really making you helpless, while the god-authority you desire to take over 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
stems from the hidden striving to remain a helpless child in order to make the grown-up world 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
have found this unconscious insistence on remaining a helpless child, you will soon come to see that 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
combat this discovery by making yourself even more helpless, more fearful, and weaker. Once you truly see 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
and self-contempt, and you become weaker and more helpless. Such a relation to authority can take the 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
expressed in these words: I am a weak, helpless sinner. I can do nothing without God, without 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
you need God's help because you make yourself helpless. Then you will feel God's help because you 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
and self-pity. This makes you more dependent and helpless -- and so the vicious circle continues in 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
on false religion. This makes you weak and helpless. But if you have mature, strong emotions, you 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
of compulsiveness and craving. Mismanagement will make people helpless and dependent on others to have their needs 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
or neither alternative may satisfy anyone. You feel helpless, and because you cannot cope with the issue 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
trapping yourself and making yourself weak, dependent, and helpless. Then, your true self cannot manifest. So far 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
determining in what areas of life you feel helpless, trapped in situations outside your control. Wherever such 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
chosen the pseudo-solution of power. Not to be helpless does not mean that you always win, that 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
self- alienating. It leads you to be as helpless as the outright submissive, compliant and weak person 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
than you did before. You will feel less helpless as you become able to mobilize your inherent 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
might find many solutions. You prefer to remain helpless, thrusting your own powers, forces and faculties to 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
for the first time as being no longer helpless. Whenever you find an issue that bothers you 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
bothers you, determine whether or not you feel helpless. if you do, you now know from all 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
may be convinced that no one is a helpless victim, that you all create your own life 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
a child. Your fear is part of the helpless baby that you feel you have to remain 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
to be safe. To give up being a helpless, fearful baby means to you that people will 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
You have to help me. I am so helpless. You are responsible for me. The mistakes I 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
independent ability to choose, instead of being utterly helpless and waiting for fate to bring you happiness 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
attack and threat. He or she is paralyzed, helpless, and actually becomes a prey, behaving like a 101 THE DEFENSE
supposed arbitrariness of life against which he feels helpless. Thus, his suffering will take on an entirely 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
helplessness. For, strangely enough, you do not feel helpless toward an outer event that you cannot change 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
turn results in guilt, fear, uncertainty, anger, resentment, helpless rage, and confused fluctuation between giving in too 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
Not facing these afflicted areas will render you helpless when it comes to dealing with the creations 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
loving and relating. They never feel insecure and helpless because they do not have love. Whenever you 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
fear, where you no longer feel like a helpless straw in the wind. As long as you 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
until nature breaks it down will render you helpless. The feelings will swamp you and you will 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
this applies to you. As a child is helpless, so is an invalid. Both depend on others 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
not give yourself the chance not to be helpless, nor to test whether or not your helplessness 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
also fear knowing that you need not be helpless if you do not wish to be. You 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
to provide it for yourself, you will remain helpless and dependent and insecure. If you can accept 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
you fear is much less frightening than your helpless dependency on having to have what you want 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
the girl-child feels rejected, she feels passive and helpless. The passivity and helplessness, as an aspect of 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
She erroneously feels that being hurt and being helpless against it is femininity and thereby fights against 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
is lacking and you therefore feel weak and helpless. False control is damaging and leads farther away 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
wanted and desired because one feels insecure and helpless. Often aggression and hostility are taken up by 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
does today. Primitive humanity was also much more helpless and dependent than it is today. It had 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
her femininity and in the end becomes more helpless and dependent. The more control she exerts, and 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
artificial and unhealthy control, she becomes even more helpless, while at the same time isolating herself and 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
to do with your problem, that you are helpless to change your predicament. But when you realize 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
to take over, you can never again be helpless and lost. The vibrant life force will flow 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
a long time to be delivered from this helpless, passive position, but as long as you do 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
not see immediate cause and effect. You are helpless because you believe yourself to be, not because 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
you see that you believe yourself to be helpless, that your desire is hopeless, and that therefore 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
fences, no prison walls, that you are not helpless, that you can constantly influence and mold your 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
on circumstances outside your control. Therefore you feel helpless. You feel like a straw in the wind 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
will succeed. You will no longer be a helpless prey. You then take hold of yourself by 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
as real. By dint of your feelings of helpless weakness and inadequacy, others assume the role of 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
and when the person is no longer a helpless child, this, in the smallest measure, is the 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
where flexibility should exist, as well as a helpless loss of self where resilient firmness should prevail 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
avoid pain. Children are, by their very nature, helpless, weak, dependent. Hence, the suffering they may experience 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
significance of this is vastly overlooked. People feel helpless toward their own body. There is a considerable 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
control ends. It is then that you feel helpless, weak, afraid. The relationship between your body, your 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
with the result that you feel even more helpless in the grip of your own personality. Even 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
be at work within me, how much more helpless must I be in the face of life 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
have occasionally noticed that where you were once helpless, you are no longer helpless at all. You 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
you were once helpless, you are no longer helpless at all. You not only discover power, strength 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
any longer to numb oneself, to cope with helpless exposure to pain; for you are no longer 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
exposure to pain; for you are no longer helpless. My dearest friends, the absorption, understanding, the knowing 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
the inner self to create a state of helpless endurance, instead of correcting, healing, improving and preventing 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
its presence and its power must make people helpless victims. It is the inner being that can 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
goes on in the self -- believing oneself helpless in the grip of one's feelings, attitudes, and 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
made this recognition you will no longer feel helpless and controlled by powers you cannot understand. If 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
life, and the less you will feel victimized, helpless, and weak. When an entity is not aware 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
as a victim. It is inevitable to feel helpless when one lacks the awareness that the effect 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
It constitutes the difference between feeling like a helpless straw in the wind, a little forgotten tool 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
had done that, you would not have become helpless and powerless. In reality, your weakness and helplessness 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
you will become stronger, more self-governing and less helpless -- and therefore no one could take advantage 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
of your reach; hence you are not a helpless victim of it. for it is within the 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
expects only to receive. The weaker and more helpless such egocentric people become, the more they tend 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
the universal laws within yourself, you do become helpless; you do become a prey to circumstances beyond 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
the attached negativity. The individual thus becomes a helpless straw between the two pulls, and is driven 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
so that one is disconnected from it and helpless about the result -- which is, of course 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
an innocent victim, that does not make you helpless to construct your life well. The power to 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
your growth stunted. It is true that the helpless child depends on receiving all its needs from 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
accomplished when you realize that you are not helpless about your past, that you contain forces that 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
human beings believe themselves to be bound, paralyzed, helpless and unable to move in spirit, in mind 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
weakness and dependency which makes you feel utterly helpless, unable to assert yourself, and even unable to 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
has grown up and is indeed no longer helpless and dependent. Infants and young children truly are 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
and dependent. Infants and young children truly are helpless and dependent on the parents. But in the 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
the fact that a crying, demanding, angry, and helpless child still exists within you. Your adult believes 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
In this secret corner, you feel not only helpless and dependent, but also deeply ashamed. The shame 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
folly, for only in this separation are you helpless. And only in this separation are you practically 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
are not so much a question of the helpless conditions of childhood, although those may have set 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
rejection of life, you will no longer feel helpless in the fear of death. Something will change 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
that moment on, the individual ceases to be helpless. In truth, human beings have never been helpless 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
helpless. In truth, human beings have never been helpless against any force or power outside themselves; but 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
force or power outside themselves; but they are helpless against their own inner processes until they recognize 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
fearing self-surrender as long as she makes herself helpless for whatever distorted motives. If she is not 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
will feel life is futile. You will feel helpless and incapable of assuaging the pain of nonfulfillment 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
lot more self-respect, integrity, and hope than the helpless resignation to circumstances life is supposed to bring 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
concomitant behavior patterns, you are no longer a helpless tool in the hand of fate. If such 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
you have created your experiences, you will feel helpless in the hands of a power you cannot 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
are your own powers. You are not a helpless pawn in anyone's hands. This is the all-important 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
that you never need to feel inadequate and helpless again, for the source of all life supplies 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
in your entire approach to life: from feeling helpless to seeing life as your own creation in 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
choice slip by, you become truly lost and helpless and can no longer find the connection to 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
by others -- he puts himself into a helpless position and becomes trapped, for at that point 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
a price to pay! Doing this renders you helpless indeed and brings about isolation, or unending pain 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
use this all-important key. You cannot ever feel helpless or victimized when the significant transition has taken 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
point in both instances is that one feels helpless and not responsible for one's own experiences and 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
in a limited, undesirable way, you become truly helpless. The pain of human existence is disunity within 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
powers, the self feels less and less forlorn, helpless, lost, hopeless, or empty. The whole sense of 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
dangerous. Being open does not make you more helpless; it makes you less so. It makes you 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
infantile dependency, in the illusion that you are helpless in the face of the other's wrongdoing, and 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
denial of your vulnerabilities, your shame of feeling helpless, and your feeling of being unlovable create evil 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
upon you from the outside when you are helpless and defenseless, it cannot become a detriment in 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
hope and purpose, rather than that of a helpless victim who is led to slaughter. Your fear 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
They also turn to therapies that encourage the helpless state of sickness and overlook the potent factor 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
accept this. They would rather see themselves as helpless, innocent victims and experience all the suffering and 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
distortion. Paradoxical as it may seem, the more helpless you pretend to be vis-a-vis your life experience 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
powers so as to no longer be irresponsible, helpless children. But these powers must now be exercised 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
your own creative powers, rather than feeling a helpless object in a fixed world. Peace and knowledge 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
stage it is impossible to feel quite so helpless, anxious, afraid, victimized, and hopeless. Even if the 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
it will fall into a resignation to being helpless and unhappy. That is why the resistance to 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
humans find themselves in the illusion of being helpless, they have lost touch with the intentionality that 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
also believe that as a child you are helpless, that you are dependent, and you do not 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
against. In this pattern you feel like a helpless pawn. But when you discover the power of 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
relieves the inner anxiety that you are a helpless straw in the wind, living in a world 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
in a position in which you find yourself helpless against these common human experiences. As you become 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
often wallow in the notion that you are helpless and beaten by adversity. Even the popular belief 254 SURRENDER
can contribute to the notion that you are helpless. Again it is not contradictory to say that 254 SURRENDER

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