| Depleted....................3 | |
| negative circles of spiritually unproductive currents, it gets depleted and wasted, because it cannot be renewed, at | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| struggle will not consume you and leave you depleted. No effort is required to allow what is | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| gives, the less one has and the more depleted one becomes. This comes from the illusion that | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| Deplore.....................11 | |
| how they connect with the very results you deplore most in your life; and (b) that you | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| indeed create negatively, that the very unhappiness you deplore and render others responsible for is caused by | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| contributing to those very ills you so much deplore. You do it precisely by your negativity which | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| price you pay for it, because all you deplore most in yourself and in your life experience | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| not yet see the connection with all you deplore in your life. The connecting link between cause | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| do not state this clearly to themselves. They deplore a certain situation or problem but fail to | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| aware that the aspects of your life you deplore and suffer most from are direct effects of | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| certain level is -- totally unjustified? Do you deplore your weakness, your lack of self-assertion? All these | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| you to see how you create what you deplore; how, if you wish a different life experience | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| have produced manifestations in your life that you deplore and have complained about while passively waiting for | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| be, it creates life conditions that you must deplore. This is one reason why you must learn | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Depress.....................7 | |
| you must feel it. Thus truth will never depress you, my dear friends. And there you find | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| With this attitude, nothing that happens will ever depress you. Yes, my friends, this is the truth | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| cannot use constructively at this time; it may depress you and hold you back from your development | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the proper attitude toward shortcomings. If your faults depress you so deeply that you are afraid to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| Without understanding them, they would completely suffocate you, depress you more than necessary, and you would see | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| not seem to go anywhere. These periods will depress you in the beginning. They will be the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| of imperfect reactions or selfish emotions will not depress you. I assure you that if a negative | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| Depressed...................31 | |
| your personality has been taken. Do not get depressed. It is extremely important for anyone who hopes | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| that when you are in doubt you are depressed, and when you are experiencing truth, you feel | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| fulfilled certain fundamental conditions, you will not be depressed any more by your life and your difficulties | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| hear the cry. When you are sad or depressed, when you are dissatisfied with your life whether | 31 SHAME |
| the sense of things getting worse, feeling more depressed, more confused. In reality it is part of | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unpleasant happens to you now and you become depressed, although you know perfectly well that in a | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| unrealistic that mood was. Perhaps you are hopelessly depressed again, but it is very possible that the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you are not even aware that you are depressed, let alone why. So you must start by | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| say, I do not know why I am depressed. But if you search diligently, you will always | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| or greed or whatever else, but without being depressed about it. Simultaneously, there will be a simple | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have a healthy attitude toward it. You feel depressed only when you are unable to change it | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| experience for your whole being. When you are depressed due to the loss of a beloved person | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| There are so many instances when one is depressed with less valid outer reason, and sometimes with | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| my friends, to understand this whenever you feel depressed. When you believe you are sad due to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| at your disposal. When you are listless and depressed, or in any way unhappy, the material is | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| about it. Automatism makes you feel bleak, hopeless, depressed, anxious, afraid, unalive, bored, disgusted with yourself or | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| this point. Let us assume you are tired, depressed and hopeless, at the point of giving up | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| from your self, if you feel disconnected, anxious, depressed, hopeless or bored, there is in this very | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| on within you. When you say you are depressed or anxious or hopeless or angry or hurt | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| productive and positive, but the feeling tone is depressed and negative, if in your feelings you are | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| of depression are not courageously exposed, you become depressed about being depressed. You may then feel that | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| not courageously exposed, you become depressed about being depressed. You may then feel that you should be | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| able to face your depression rather than being depressed about it, but you are not really willing | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| It is evaded, so that depression about being depressed will be set off in the self-perpetuating vicious | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| to this belief, you will still feel hopeless, depressed, fearful or anxious, entangled in apparently insoluble conflicts | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| joyful and content, as opposed to anxious and depressed; or whatever else you are concerned with. Visualization | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| wider and deeper considerations, the more restless and depressed they become. Whatever divine laws and attributes exist | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the coin: When you are in a difficult, depressed, and bleak mood, you despair because then, again | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| state, the anxious state, the unhappy state, the depressed state, the state of unrest and fear and | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| beyond the surface. This is why you become depressed, anxious, confused. It is only when you ask | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| mentioned. But when you are unhappy, heavy or depressed, your own energy system unites with the similar | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Depresses...................3 | |
| you that if a negative recognition about yourself depresses you, there must be something wrong in your | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| examine everything that bothers her, that disturbs or depresses her, when you work it through, you will | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not able -- to do so, and that depresses you even more. This becomes a vicious circle | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| Depressing..................6 | |
| You may oversimplify this by saying: Things are depressing; I experience unpleasant things and that is why | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| same way that you should look at your depressing moods and other negative aspects. Just observe the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| You may oversimplify this by saying, Things are depressing. I experience unpleasant things and that is why | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| were. It is this confusion that is most depressing -- and the first step toward alleviating it | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| mortality is never a burden. It is never depressing or fear-producing. It never diminishes the now, nor | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| no longer experience the rhythmic downward curve as depressing, upsetting, or disadvantageous. For each living moment, fully | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| Depression..................71 | |
| easier to give in to a mood of depression and hopelessness, for this allows you to be | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| a person slowly but surely further into darkness, depression, self-despising moods, and thus into separation from God | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| situation, in hopelessness and longing, in despair and depression, as long as a false God-image exists in | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| why and wherefrom. In most instances, if the depression cannot be hidden away, you seek and find | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| all that without a feeling of guilt and depression, but rather in a spirit of joy, release | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of you to some degree, in hours of depression and anxiety, that even though your intellectual memory | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of your ideals will not throw you into depression, anxiety, and guilt, but will rather strengthen you | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you have a feeling of acute anxiety and depression, consider the fact that your idealized self may | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Recognize the self-contempt that underlies the anxiety or depression. When you are compulsively angry at others, consider | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| excuse of outer problems to account for acute depression or fear. Look into the question from this | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Such failure throws the person into fits of depression and self- contempt which, again, have to be | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| and pseudo-solution and show how illusory both are. Depression sets in because the pseudo-solution and the goal | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cannot be repeated often enough that many a depression and despair is based on expectations of yourself | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| spoil your mood. It may plunge you into depression and ill humor. The former disproportionately raises your | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| is reached, you are bound to suffer from depression and confusion. In the past, you may have | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| individual case will your confusion, and then your depression and discouragement, disappear. Let us review in brief | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| responding to aspects of reality. But self-pity and depression are not. Boredom is not. Life is joy | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| I went through a long time of deep depression and then I found that I had failed | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| in peace, be in God! 106. SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP Greetings, my dearest friends. I welcome | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| I repeat, wherever there is stagnation, discouragement, and depression about the validity of your work, in some | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| first of all, the difference between sadness and depression. It is important, at this time, to get | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| case is crass, the difference between sadness and depression is very distinct, and I believe you can | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| differentiation is not easy because both sadness and depression exist simultaneously. They intermingle and overlap. Your sadness | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| overlap. Your sadness may make you believe that depression is absent. You may believe that your feelings | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| and comprehension to find in yourself the unproductive depression with its underlying cause, in spite of the | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| to change. When you are truly sad, without depression, you not only feel it as a healthy | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| superimposition, no hiding, no shifting of emotions. In depression the outer circumstance may be the same, but | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| is going on in you. That is why depression is always linked with frustration and helplessness. For | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you cannot cope with it. This, then, causes depression, and depression, as opposed to sadness, is a | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| cope with it. This, then, causes depression, and depression, as opposed to sadness, is a very stifling | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| Take self-pity, which is always a byproduct of depression. It is unhealthy because it is unfounded. There | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you, and make allowances for you. Moreover, in depression, as I just explained, you deceive yourself about | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| exert a forcing current upon the world. Furthermore, depression is unhealthy because you passively remain unchanged, falsely | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| changed. All these characterize the unhealthy state of depression. The example of loss through death is purposely | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| to find the gnawing undercurrents that cause the depression. Only then can you free yourself forever of | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| understanding it. The dissolution of the cause of depression not only serves the purpose of freeing you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| will work for you rather than against you. Depression makes you feel as though life slipped by | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| cannot be the dynamic experience it otherwise is. Depression is self-generating. Since depression is the effect, it | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| experience it otherwise is. Depression is self-generating. Since depression is the effect, it is its cause that | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| yourself. What is so easily forgotten is that depression needs to be considered a problem in itself | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| happens and will eventually go away. A particular depression may indeed do just that after a while | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| of the inner cause. Therefore please take up depression as a problem in your work. Every affliction | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you constantly find yourself in the throes of depression and rebellion, investigate, my dearest friends, whether this | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| more. Those who find themselves in a hopeless depression will be less inclined to hide. Instead, they | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| more and more often to such periods of depression, anxiety, uncertainty, and disharmony, and if you do | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| organically growing into an extended time dimension. Listlessness, depression, impatience, nervousness, anxiety, tension, frustration, boredom, apathy, and | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| short-lived. They alternate with periods of confusion and depression. But the more you master the dark phases | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| not yet discouraged by repeated disappointments. The hopelessness, depression, and sense of futility are still absent. If | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the life force. If your now is confusion, depression, and stagnation, and you face these feelings fully | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you still experience the negative mood -- anxiety, depression, lifelessness, or whatever it may be. It is | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| in need of emptying out because heaviness and depression indicate that I ignore what really bothers me | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| journey, a change of domicile. People invariably experience depression when they terminate one phase of existence, although | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| at the same time -- wracking anxiety, anguish, depression and a deep peace and well-being -- the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| state of mind may appear. People in deep depression and hopelessness must be in error, for they | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| me name a few: lack of energy, anxiety, depression, hopelessness, illness, frustration, failures, feelings of inadequacy, pleasurelessness | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| not direct primary emotions: fear may disguise rage; depression may disguise fear. The problem is that fear | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| so on. The fear compounds. Let us take depression. If the underlying causes of the original feeling | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the underlying causes of the original feeling of depression are not courageously exposed, you become depressed about | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| that you should be able to face your depression rather than being depressed about it, but you | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| more. This becomes a vicious circle. The first depression -- or fear, or another emotion -- is | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| true meaning understood. It is evaded, so that depression about being depressed will be set off in | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of emotions such as anger, frustration, impatience, and depression are not recognized for what they are. This | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| absent-mindedness, a sense of futility about one's life, depression, lack of energy, and often physical difficulties characterize | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| realistic sense of proportion about it. No hopeless depression can ever get hold of you in this | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| fully utilized material within you. Every minute of depression or anxiety and every hopeless or otherwise negative | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| situations. Displaced and denied sadness becomes self-pity, hopelessness, depression. These emotions are indeed debilitating and destructive, whereas | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| will free yourself of a burden that causes depression, anxiety, worry, hopelessness, and often physical illness and | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| experience long, drawn-out states of disharmony, anxiety, crisis, depression, upheaval. It is of course realistically quite impossible | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| even be more often a chronic state of depression, anxiety and, indeed, disconnectedness. The same principle applies | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| separateness, in hopelessness, in lack of faith, in depression, in a bleak vision of the universe, in | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| you fall into a state which you call depression because you do not have the faith that | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |