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| wrong kind of shame? They say: I am hopelessly bad, and there is nothing that can be | 31 SHAME |
| yourself as you really are. The moment you hopelessly despair about the lower side of your nature | 31 SHAME |
| how unrealistic that mood was. Perhaps you are hopelessly depressed again, but it is very possible that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you are bound to resist in turn. This hopelessly futile and exhausting battle cannot be eliminated unless | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| want to give it up. Healthy pleasure seems hopelessly unattainable. In other words, masochism is a giving | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to launch a counterattack, or, if this is hopelessly dangerous and futile, to run away and protect | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| less it can be solved and the more hopelessly enmeshed you become in it. Let us now | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| -- a state that usually seems unattainable and hopelessly far away. But it really is not. It | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on the other hand, nor are you so hopelessly bad and unacceptable as you meanwhile believe you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| easily justifying it. You indulge in compulsive, negative, hopelessly circular thinking, and your present consciousness cannot be | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in fact possible to admit destructiveness without feeling hopelessly worthless. When you are jealous and envious you | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| but you are not right in believing yourself hopelessly bad because of them. So this path must | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| they are not their illusory perfection, they are hopelessly bad. This error should be challenged, examined, and | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you perceive that every situation, no matter how hopelessly confused and negative it may appear, simultaneously harbors | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
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| self is stronger, you believe that doubt, despair, hopelessness may after all be true. Now there is | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| give in to a mood of depression and hopelessness, for this allows you to be passive and | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| the stumbling is viewed with an attitude of hopelessness and self-disgust, then the clouds become bigger and | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| at the same time lose your sense of hopelessness about yourself. You will lose your sense of | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| recognize the hurts you have inflicted on others: hopelessness about yourself -- the negative, destructive guilt feelings | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| In its sick sense, acceptance fosters masochistic tendencies, hopelessness, and the self-deception of indulging in resignation that | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| goes into an undertaking with an attitude of hopelessness? ANSWER: One's attitude always has a bearing, but | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| whole scale between the two opposite poles, from hopelessness and despair -- believing that the universe is | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| will be the times of heaviness and apparent hopelessness. The further you are advanced, the more you | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| Whenever you are in a difficult situation, in hopelessness and longing, in despair and depression, as long | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| beings. This wrong conclusion accounts for the utter hopelessness you so often feel -- a hopelessness that | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| utter hopelessness you so often feel -- a hopelessness that finds an outlet in occasional moods for | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| very conflict is the underlying reality of your hopelessness. Were your misconception true, happiness would indeed be | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| Know that the shadow is not truth. Unhappiness, hopelessness is not truth. For the world is a | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| high and unnecessary price in unhappiness, helplessness, and hopelessness. To be adult in the true sense means | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| than another, deep down there is a greater hopelessness. Otherwise he or she would not have resorted | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| futility and this gives you a sense of hopelessness, impatience and disgust with life, the feeling of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| we likely to be caught in the supposed hopelessness of some obstruction's temporary darkness. We come to | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| real conscience, then there will be no destructive hopelessness, despair with oneself, anger at oneself, impatience. There | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is a feeling of futility about life, of hopelessness, a fear of coping with life's difficulties. It | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Loss of conscious desires, wishes and goals, or hopelessness about them, which comes from not daring to | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| guarding against recognizing something, and using justification, self-pity, hopelessness, or a superficial rationalization, blaming outer circumstances? Test | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| it as a healthy growing pain free of hopelessness, but you are sad due to an outer | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| has times when you encounter a streak of hopelessness. I have often said that this has to | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| To be called upon to do so induces hopelessness because you cannot yet see how to operate | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| into daylight. Your superimposed hope masks an inner hopelessness that says, If I let go of my | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| it not much better to face the underlying hopelessness until hope -- as well as faith, or | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| problem I am discussing: covering up doubt and hopelessness with a strained faith and hopefulness, rather than | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| an attempt to squelch doubt, fear, evasion, illusion, hopelessness, unwillingness to change, and many other destructive attitudes | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| come a step closer to unearthing your present hopelessness, doubts, guilts, confusions, illusions. May you thus free | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| alternatives are unsatisfactory and create a state of hopelessness, simply because they both lead to an unsatisfactory | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| you once again separate. Then stagnation and gray hopelessness set in again. But when you move in | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| understanding its presence, you will find relief from hopelessness and the way out will be in sight | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| You cannot find a way out of the hopelessness and destruction, the temporary and pseudo- satisfaction of | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| When this is perceived for the first time, hopelessness, defeatism will make room for genuine -- not | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| are not yet discouraged by repeated disappointments. The hopelessness, depression, and sense of futility are still absent | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| not, because your outlook is blurred by your hopelessness and confusion about life and about yourself. At | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| be fraught with friction to the point of hopelessness. Each resents in the other what he or | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| two equally undesirable choices -- and the resulting hopelessness about winning or obtaining fulfillment -- for granted | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| you reject your very wish, you cannot eliminate hopelessness which is always a byproduct of such an | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| of yourself from the desire, there must be hopelessness. The only way you can dissolve the hopelessness | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| hopelessness. The only way you can dissolve the hopelessness is by directly going toward that side in | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| my friends who linger and dwell in their hopelessness. Instead, say: If I feel hopeless because I | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| and intend to find this denial. Then the hopelessness will dissolve. The negative attitudes toward the fulfillment | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| sun exists behind the clouds, there is no hopelessness, even while the clouds prevail. It is the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| pleasure principle to negativity often creates a deep hopelessness. This hopelessness can be understood and instantly relieved | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to negativity often creates a deep hopelessness. This hopelessness can be understood and instantly relieved only when | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| feel and act in a way that produces hopelessness, fear, frustration, feelings of doubt. I will now | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| in one's consciousness must create confusion, doubt, and hopelessness. The moment awareness of the negative desire has | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| remain in a vague climate of helplessness and hopelessness, or whether you decide to clarify this inner | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| in this illusory dualistic conflict, you will experience hopelessness, for there is no way out on the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| alternative of the two opposites. The helplessness and hopelessness, the wasted energy of the dualistic struggle, rob | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the dualistic life, with all its hardship and hopelessness. Perhaps you can now understand some of this | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| wherever you recognize a point of fear and hopelessness, you must relinquish the concept underlying this fear | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| guise, and render pleasure impossible. Instead, feelings of hopelessness and waste set in. Since pleasure is a | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| a large part of humanity violently subscribes to hopelessness, negativity, to the view that the world is | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| unorthodox form, contains as much wishful thinking as hopelessness. The latter says, There is no need for | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| shirk unpleasant aspects of self-facing. This is why hopelessness is no less wishful escapism than the hope | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| from outside, is fundamentally no different from the hopelessness of nihilism. Both avoid that which seems so | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| constantly in a state of greater or lesser hopelessness that may be more or less conscious. A | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| goal -- defeats it, for tension arises from hopelessness, doubt, and an urgency which works counter to | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| where you fluctuate between twisted anxiety, torture and hopelessness, on the one hand, and numbness, lifelessness, on | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| still exists in the soul: suffering, blindness and hopelessness produce loveless feelings, selfishness, and often the most | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| where you meet the apparently uncontrollable agony, pain, hopelessness and violent anger -- and where you also | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| deadened, all experience stops. This deadness creates the hopelessness all human beings suffer from to some degree | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| filled with anguish. It never produces anxiety, tension, hopelessness, bitterness, or torment. It never puts you into | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| words will suddenly assume a new meaning. Where hopelessness seems a fact of life, ever-increasing possibilities of | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| types of recognition, you can protect yourself from hopelessness, or at least realize that the hopelessness is | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| from hopelessness, or at least realize that the hopelessness is in itself a sign that the way | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| yet been found. Rather than weakening you, the hopelessness can then be an incentive to surge on | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| all their feelings are affected. The frustration and hopelessness that result from such conflicts increase hostility, which | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| help but produce negative emotions such as anger, hopelessness, and distrust. Moreover, misconception must lead to unfulfillment | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| you perpetually frustrate yourself. A great deal of hopelessness is rooted in such self-frustration. Now let me | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| mind may appear. People in deep depression and hopelessness must be in error, for they negate the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| to realize it, in a pessimism or even hopelessness about it. Such pessimism makes you fluctuate between | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| full consciousness, I am afraid of pleasure, the hopelessness will disappear. You will feel the two forces | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of the vague anxiety and the feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy which result from your not knowing | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you will eliminate a lot of fear and hopelessness and wasteful effort. You will become more patient | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| denial of self-responsibility leads to false acceptance -- hopelessness, resignation, doom. When the small, momentary frustration or | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| contradiction. He now begins to see that his hopelessness is a direct result of wanting his own | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| freed your innermost psyche of fear, negativity, defenses, hopelessness, unrecognized and mischannelled anger, a mass catastrophe will | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| name a few: lack of energy, anxiety, depression, hopelessness, illness, frustration, failures, feelings of inadequacy, pleasurelessness, listlessness | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| stay within the narrow confines of neurotic self-beating, hopelessness, and morbid capitulation, which always cover unexpressed hatred | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| knowledge and resources. Observe this habit of self-beating, hopelessness, and capitulation in yourself and counteract it -- | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| that the consciousness is unable to stop generates hopelessness. The repetition and the hopelessness could stop only | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| to stop generates hopelessness. The repetition and the hopelessness could stop only by no longer avoiding the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| which is that there is no reason for hopelessness, and difficult periods need only to be understood | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| quickly again, without understanding why. And this breeds hopelessness. Hence, there is always so much disappointment -- | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| and synthesizing them. This allows for truthfulness without hopelessness. What dignity it lends you when you consider | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to an apparently even more justified negativity. Unrealistic hopelessness and unrealistic magical hope are the two extremes | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to love; through the gateway of feeling your hopelessness lies true and justified hope; through the gateway | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| subsequent situations. Displaced and denied sadness becomes self-pity, hopelessness, depression. These emotions are indeed debilitating and destructive | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| despair, I do not mean the subtly forced hopelessness that results from a forcing current. The forcing | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| must protect me from all unpleasurable feelings. My hopelessness will convince you that this is what you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| can be deciphered and admitted, the manipulative, artificial hopelessness -- which is always unbearable -- will give | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| by avoiding them, and it creates the false hopelessness that the tunnel of painful feelings is a | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| to entrap the person in a state of hopelessness. It is not too difficult to rationalize a | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| locked and bitter, with the added connotation of hopelessness. It is very different from the pain of | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| that you experience. Does it lead to bleak hopelessness, to sustained abysses where no light seems to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| innocent victims and experience all the suffering and hopelessness that go with that, rather than accept the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| All of these are attempts to whisk away hopelessness, which, in turn, exists because of destructive attitudes | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| can change and grow out of negativity, destructiveness, hopelessness, misery and poverty, that the universe is abundant | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| hopeless. You then busily deny your sense of hopelessness and futility, and thus you go on ignoring | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| of a burden that causes depression, anxiety, worry, hopelessness, and often physical illness and material frustration as | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| of trust, however. Doing so in bitterness and hopelessness is again not the right way. Then the | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| find it difficult to deal with the inner hopelessness.. Whoever is outwardly negative, dependent, weak, and submissive | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| you experience your outer holding or your outer hopelessness, try to get in touch with the hidden | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| just discussed where you struggle between resorting to hopelessness or to pushing, holding, and applying pressure from | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| self-facing includes courage and humility, and never induces hopelessness, even if you first examine the world of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| much that the personality finally believes in its hopelessness. Thus the outer personality finds itself unwilling to | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| solution exists but the negative one that creates hopelessness and pain, you have closed your inner and | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| than the part of you that feels this hopelessness. So when you feel hopeless it is important | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| to realize that you now identify with your hopelessness. When you feel self- rejecting, guilty and bad | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| of all desire, which manifests as resignation and hopelessness. The refusal to endure any kind of frustration | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| creating a state of fear, self-hate, distrust and hopelessness. This is what I ask you to do | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| So despair and a sense of futility and hopelessness about life arise. You say to yourself, I | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| been experiencing lately a lot of feelings of hopelessness and desolation which I know, at least intellectually | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| focusing your gaze on all the negativities and hopelessness, seeing only what is life- denying, and not | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| of love can simply manifest in separateness, in hopelessness, in lack of faith, in depression, in a | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| manifestation is the distortion of eternity. It is hopelessness itself as if no change were ever possible | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| perception humans have of them, leads to nihilism, hopelessness, and the void -- as if that were | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| you to give in to their whisperings of hopelessness and false surrender. Here you must stand firm | 254 SURRENDER |
| and it may also bring a feeling of hopelessness about self-purification. Will it never end? I want | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |