| Hoped.......................18 | |
| than hearing an answer which you had actually hoped for. In the latter case, you could tell | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| reach eventually -- and it is to be hoped that this will happen in the not too | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a door to the very people you had hoped to convince and were unable to reach by | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| not made a whole decision; you had somehow hoped to gain the advantage without accepting the disadvantage | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| may report back that conditions are not as hoped for and are therefore unsuitable for the purpose | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| brought you more suffering than what you had hoped to avoid, you will become free. So, for | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| the work of purification. It is to be hoped that then the work of purification will extend | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| faultless and perfect as the child thought and hoped, yet they are not to be rejected now | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| are betrayed. What you were promised and have hoped for does not come true. Is this not | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| see the causes. The best that could be hoped for was to prevent people from destructive actions | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| with respect to this question. You might have hoped to hear that involvement with someone is indeed | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| thinking, not escape or daydreaming of a vaguely hoped for miracle bringing salvation, but realistic hope, justified | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| is always totally different both from what you hoped for and feared on the dualistic plane. You | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| It is the healing you have sought and hoped for. This is the way it comes about | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| as the situation was not desperate, you had hoped that going in this direction would lead to | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Thus your guilt compounds because the evil you hoped to eliminate only increases when it is repressed | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| can be eliminated only by feeling what you hoped you could avoid feeling. Then a new energy | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| to me unexpectedly. It is as though you hoped for some idealized parental figure to assuage your | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Hopeful.....................10 | |
| instead of merely acknowledging, I felt angry or hopeful or unhappy or joyous on such and such | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| What was this desire? And if I feel hopeful, is it because the chances seem greater now | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| in spite of problematic conditions. One has a hopeful outlook, and fulfillment comes at least to a | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| and reality that is so reassuring and so hopeful, no matter what relapses may occur. When compressed | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for growth may not be compatible with a hopeful illusion. Thus, when aspects of the organism stem | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| with this comprehension you can grope in a hopeful and meaningful way. If at each difficulty, at | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Yet this apparently hard law is the most hopeful, encouraging, liberating, and strengthening truth of all truths | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| way, you will experience the truth of life's hopeful changeability, its endless possibilities to move in new | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| you know this, you will feel bright and hopeful. Others who find themselves at the identical inner | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| harmony with life, if you are joyous and hopeful, you can be certain that you partake of | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Hopefulness.................5 | |
| doubt and hopelessness with a strained faith and hopefulness, rather than having faith and hope in the | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| constantly renewed vigor. Then there would be realistic hopefulness, as opposed to wishful thinking; foresight; the ability | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of new strength and energy, joy of life, hopefulness and brightness come forth. And also, specifically, the | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| and abused; people are misled into a temporary hopefulness, into temporary success, but it cannot be real | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and therefore changing into a state of realistic hopefulness and light, into the essence of life itself | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| Hopeless....................111 | |
| way out by telling themselves that everything is hopeless. This attitude is frequent and it is just | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| mean that you should resign yourself and become hopeless, wallowing in your little pains and tribulations. It | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| and the loneliness not quite so unbearable and hopeless any more. When enough spirits came into the | 21 THE FALL |
| Only when a case is too crass, too hopeless, are the wishes disregarded and the type of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| vicious circle and think that marriage is a hopeless proposition. No, my friends, it is not, even | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| your own badness and lead you to feel hopeless about yourself. There are three possible wrong reactions | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you, even though at times things may look hopeless and bleak. But do not ever forget that | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| in which you have to be afraid and hopeless, a universe where God's grace comes to a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| for it because in that state everything seems hopeless; you are under the impression that nothing changes | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| you feel so inferior makes you feel so hopeless. If you only knew why, you could adjust | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| do not know what it is, you remain hopeless. No certainty is ever as hard to bear | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| same might be the remedy. To break this hopeless running around in circles, begin to see clearly | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| more guilty and inferior, and therefore becoming more hopeless than ever, is destructive and weakening. My dear | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| emotionally it holds true; for when everything seems hopeless, the mood becomes desperate. The undeveloped being feels | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| times are not useless, they do not feel hopeless, but fight with courage until the sun shines | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| be due to unhappiness, to predicaments one feels hopeless about. This creates the desire which may be | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| seems dire misery. The world becomes bleak and hopeless with no chance for happiness, because your concept | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| an impossibility. You would be justified in being hopeless if you couldn't be happy without being loved | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| convinces you anew that your predicament is indeed hopeless. Since the cause of your rebellion is unconscious | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| a recent mood in which life seemed completely hopeless, and then look at your life now, only | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| chosen when people are more inclined to be hopeless of ever getting from others what they consider | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| No wonder you are in disharmony, unhappy, and hopeless. You seldom, if ever, realize for a moment | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| psychologist asserts that reality is so dismal, so hopeless, so despairing, and stands in such contradiction to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| from pleasure a priori. So the situation is hopeless. These unchaneled, primitive instincts are not more conducive | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| whole vision and you are now all bad, hopeless, and consequently, crushed. Thus you are incapable of | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| this makes you more impatient, more frantic and hopeless. But understanding what you can expect will enable | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| it really just sadness? Do you not feel hopeless and frustrated? Are you free of self- pity | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you a glimmer of light if you are hopeless and a new influx of strength if you | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| will often, in spite of occasional victories, seem hopeless. You will ask yourself, Where does all this | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| and more. Those who find themselves in a hopeless depression will be less inclined to hide. Instead | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you are disappointed, and even more insecure, and hopeless of ever finding it. You wish to have | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in many respects. Often, where life previously seemed hopeless because outside solutions seemed evermore beyond your control | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| if at the moment you feel discouraged or hopeless, must be crowned with success if you persevere | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| will release you from a straightjacket, from a hopeless choice between two dismal alternatives -- your previous | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| you soon see that the situation is not hopeless at all, that there is a wonderful, realistic | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| to come to you and made you more hopeless now has a chance to do so because | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| While on a conscious level an urgent, frantic, hopeless Yes -- not the yes-current -- clamors, cries | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| all efforts and makes the entire process truly hopeless. Many of my friends have experienced that so | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| swing from the no-current, that has a deeply hopeless, doubting, destructive, dark, negative outlook, into the yes-current | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| feel about it. Automatism makes you feel bleak, hopeless, depressed, anxious, afraid, unalive, bored, disgusted with yourself | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| yourself to be helpless, that your desire is hopeless, and that therefore you must pretend and live | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| beliefs and misconceptions, you will no longer feel hopeless about your condition. As your inner consciousness changes | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| that they pretend that life is dismal and hopeless, clinging to others to sustain and save them | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| in their hopelessness. Instead, say: If I feel hopeless because I do not get what I want | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| forget that the sun exists, they will become hopeless. By realizing the sun exists behind the clouds | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| untruth. Realize that no matter how negative, how hopeless, how unhappy your momentary moods are, the truth | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| Let us assume you are tired, depressed and hopeless, at the point of giving up your efforts | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| necessary. Where the personality gives up in a hopeless, resigned way, without formulating thoughts that can activate | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| a dynamic lifestream. It will change what is hopeless into bright hope, what is fearful into deep | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| this to their own impairments. They are perplexed, hopeless and paralyzed because it simply does not occur | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| inevitably pay. You foolishly talk yourself into a hopeless situation because you hope to avoid the correction | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| cuts deeply into your soul and makes you hopeless about yourself or despair about your ability to | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| your self, if you feel disconnected, anxious, depressed, hopeless or bored, there is in this very moment | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| This induces the hope, where before you felt hopeless, that you might someday experience aliveness and pleasure | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| confuses you, frightens you, and makes you feel hopeless about life. It causes you to put up | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| goes on increases the inner tension. The more hopeless it all seems, the more the conscious self | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| level on which you are tortured, anxious, numb, hopeless, and twisted in pain -- another reality. This | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| will first come simultaneously with the usual anxious, hopeless, unhappy state. It is a gradual transition in | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| takes over and replaces the old. The old hopeless feeling recurs as rarely now as the experience | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| not be confused with masochism, deliberate self-destruction, or hopeless resignation. It requires an unexaggerated honesty to face | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| can be so insignificant that it doesn't seem hopeless if this attitude is lacking. If you are | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| in this way, success must come. It is hopeless only when you look away from the point | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you say you are depressed or anxious or hopeless or angry or hurt or fatigued, you are | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| illusory assumption, for no truth is ever burdensome, hopeless or in any way undesirable. The complications and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| a conglomerate of strong negative feelings. There is hopeless agony, there is violent rage, there is the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| that is rejected is bitter and disquieting and hopeless. The pain that is accepted is quite different | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| love and intimacy. Nothing is so disquieting and hopeless. If you wonder about your capacity to experience | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| are meant to be, nothing can ever appear hopeless to an unhappy human being. The combination of | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| justifiably and realistically gives hope, no matter how hopeless a situation or a state of mind may | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| them to your personal situation. Where are you hopeless? Why are you hopeless? Do you feel hopeless | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| situation. Where are you hopeless? Why are you hopeless? Do you feel hopeless because of life itself | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| hopeless? Why are you hopeless? Do you feel hopeless because of life itself? Because you believe the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| limited to give you sufficient scope? Are you hopeless because you feel you do not deserve and | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| concise awareness, you can ask yourself: Am I hopeless about deserving happiness because I, possibly quite justifiably | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| your life. Thus, when you feel unhappy or hopeless, question yourself: Do I not have another way | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| I choose to react negatively, destructively, making myself hopeless, complaining and feeling angry about it? This choice | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| it may manifest as vague discontent with life, hopeless longing, a sense of futility and frustration from | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| and therefore you feel increasingly more disconnected and hopeless. In order to hide from others -- and | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| no need to see life as bleak and hopeless because someone acts destructively toward you. Therefore this | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| for is the dichotomy of anxious striving versus hopeless resignation, arising from an unconscious rejection of the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| The deep inner burden of being puzzled and hopeless about attaining what you deeply yearn for will | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| ever come from this attitude. It is a hopeless and endless chase for an illusory goal that | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| life. Such an attitude is never negative or hopeless, but rather leads to the right kind of | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the exaggeration that the difficulty is insurmountable and hopeless -- in short, selfwill, pride, and fear -- | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| for blissful expansion -- and the dark, constricted, hopeless negativity and destructiveness. To put it in even | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| self feels less and less forlorn, helpless, lost, hopeless, or empty. The whole sense of the universe | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| derive from self-hate. When you feel stymied and hopeless, take it as a sign for you to | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| lip-service to this belief, you will still feel hopeless, depressed, fearful or anxious, entangled in apparently insoluble | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| it, you give up. You feel it is hopeless to make yourself change, so you do not | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| finding excuses or blaming others, but not feeling hopeless and self- rejecting about them either. This seems | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of you here who are discouraged and feel hopeless about yourselves, I can say only, you are | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| a realistic sense of proportion about it. No hopeless depression can ever get hold of you in | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| Every minute of depression or anxiety and every hopeless or otherwise negative attitude toward a situation contains | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| without awareness -- to be totally dismayed and hopeless, thinking that it is impossible to ever be | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it exists. What is unbearably painful, frightening, and hopeless is the inner struggle that the misconception creates | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| always create vicious circles which entrap you in hopeless situations. It is indeed true that as long | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| this is done to me, nor, I am hopeless, I am so bad that I can never | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| take over. This makes your life miserable and hopeless. You then busily deny your sense of hopelessness | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| feel quite so helpless, anxious, afraid, victimized, and hopeless. Even if the personality still doubts, at this | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the connection with self-creation, the more bitter and hopeless the suffering becomes. Then you pretend to yourself | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| current, or resignedly accepting a negative state, becoming hopeless, and harboring a negative concept of life. This | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| universe when your condition is a cramped, forcing, hopeless, negative one. Nor is the attitude of you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| can extricate yourself from the incredibly painful and hopeless dichotomy in which all humanity is caught. One | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| yourselves in a deep struggle or temporarily feeling hopeless. These manifestations merely bring out what needs to | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| obscure and frightening, and the person starts feeling hopeless, without any real cause. Part of the dishonest | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| that feels this hopelessness. So when you feel hopeless it is important to realize that you now | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| further away from the light. You then become hopeless because you no longer know where you are | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| think are impossible for you. Where you are hopeless and frightened there must be an idea of | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| by it and will insist that everything is hopeless. But those in the know will be aware | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| were ever possible. Existence is totally mechanized. Such hopeless kind of suffering is neither more nor less | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| this attitude must -- far from indicating a hopeless state in you and in your relationship to | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |