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| way, you must become unhappy. You will feel frustrated, you will have no peace of mind. If | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| liberate yourself from these chains, you will feel frustrated, unhappy, and discontented with your life. Begin to | 18 FREE WILL |
| put this in practice, but inside they feel frustrated when they are not able to do it | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| fulfillment is very temporary and illusory, you become frustrated. Practically speaking, what must your attitude be like | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| soul everything sizzles under the pressure of their frustrated will that pushes in the wrong direction. They | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| locks it behind prison bars where it feels frustrated. There is often but one impatient longing in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the fulfillment of the conscious desire was constantly frustrated, as though you had nothing to do with | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| It may be that the child was constantly frustrated in getting what it desired, most particularly objects | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| indicates that it is a re- enactment of frustrated childhood experience. Such a person unconsciously wants to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way you turn you find yourself unhappy and frustrated. You often rebel inwardly and try to force | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| Most important of all is not to feel frustrated when you do not succeed, when you find | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| that way, and you feel all the more frustrated because you do not dare to live it | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| have not attained such power would feel extremely frustrated and their sense of inadequacy would grow rather | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| him or her just as self-contemptuous, guilty, and frustrated as are the other two types when they | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| may indeed be so. The power drive is frustrated because the person's idealized self requires to always | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| other outlets are sought compulsively. One is so frustrated about one's own inability to live up to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| not you consciously realize it, you become more frustrated, and an inner haste and pressure is generated | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| criticism comes your way or your will is frustrated because of your own or other people's failings | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of affection, warmth, and understanding and was therefore frustrated. In a situation like this, the image will | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the image does not work. Therefore the constantly frustrated needs grow and are again and again repressed | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| prey to circumstances. Then observe how you feel frustrated when expressing your wants and your ideas to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| does not mean you are never insecure, afraid, frustrated, that you are never unhappy. But you can | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| your issues. Certainly you will at times be frustrated, uncertain, sad. In fact, if you were never | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| swells to unbearable proportions and you become more frustrated because you do not see the remedy, which | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| with need. A need that is unfulfilled and frustrated for a long period, that is thwarted again | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| is a greedy reaching out, coming from a frustrated need, while sloth is indifferent withdrawal and does | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| love and is frightened by it, yet your frustrated wish to love comes out in a stronger | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| detached, it does not make you restless and frustrated. Whenever you feel frustrated and the anger personally | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| make you restless and frustrated. Whenever you feel frustrated and the anger personally hurts, it always hides | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| just sadness? Do you not feel hopeless and frustrated? Are you free of self- pity? Do you | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| I cannot emphasize strongly enough that all the frustrated emotions, causing the urgency and the starvation, have | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| prohibited this aspect of its development. It is frustrated and feels a void, for the deep longing | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| interim phase, in which you find yourself more frustrated than before, the respective needs are left without | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| as much as believing, consciously or unconsciously, that frustrated needs are necessarily painful. This is one of | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| Doesn't self-forgetting create stronger needs which may be frustrated? Does this not mean more intense pain when | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of love objects who leave you unfulfilled and frustrated, or even produce pain, expresses the torn state | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| are therefore afraid of receiving. You are doubly frustrated. Your refusal to let go of the negativity | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| hit back at those who seemed to have frustrated you -- primarily the woman. Mother is represented | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of facing the reaction you have to feeling frustrated and rejected. If you feel unacceptable to girls | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it, therefore becoming more deprived and consequently more frustrated and more angry -- then nature must manifest | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| rejected. Therefore you will not be angry and frustrated and will, eventually, even begin to give out | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your truth, and the best in you. Your frustrated striving and your self-betrayal create a forcing-current. The | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| not only exhausted, but also more and more frustrated. The chasm between the self and others widens | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| difficult to bear than their frustration at being frustrated. The same is true of anger at oneself | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| fully go into it. But when you are frustrated because you ought not to be frustrated, and | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| are frustrated because you ought not to be frustrated, and then are even more frustrated because you | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| to be frustrated, and then are even more frustrated because you deny it, the pain extends. This | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| in life. You will find that the more frustrated you feel for not attaining what you so | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| or she insists on never being criticized or frustrated. But if you can deal with the hurt | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| with which you can serve. For unhappy and frustrated people cannot serve, cannot undertake the task of | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| must remain futile and you only become more frustrated. You can be sure that as long as | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| level through the false way of denying your frustrated feelings, but truly overcome it. Not only will | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| to expose yourself to the possibility of being frustrated, you confine your life to very narrow limits | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Frustrates..................3 | |
| was wrong. It becomes self-evident that this conflict frustrates your inner will and prohibits the deserved fulfillment | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| fear if there is anything that burdens or frustrates you. If you feel that your self-expression is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| circumstances, life is not easy. Matter obstructs and frustrates. The very fact of living in this dimension | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| Frustrating.................12 | |
| unconscious desire to recreate the childhood hurt, the frustrating uselessness of it. You will survey all your | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| Actually, the consequence is quite the contrary and frustrating because cause and effect are not obvious to | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| as opposed to sadness, is a very stifling, frustrating, unhealthy feeling. Let us clearly see exactly what | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| and those in which you consistently find a frustrating, unhappy pattern. It is not easy, but certainly | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and pain. You inevitably struggle in a most frustrating way. In its oblivion to the inner core | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| entire life. Wherever life is now disharmonious, limited, frustrating and withholding, it will open up gradually and | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| to say, Why should I accept such a frustrating life? Only by accepting the frustration can you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| direct manifestation of your work, the expectation becomes frustrating and discouraging. It is important, my friends, to | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| often on a vast scale, painful, debilitating, and frustrating experience. Then you use this fact as a | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| to rainy. This may at first appear more frustrating than a case when you can pin this | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| mood changed. This seemingly causeless change is so frustrating that you inwardly start rebelling and objecting. This | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the outside. This is why life is so frustrating, and often so frightening, for so many people | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
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| with a feeling of emptiness, dissatisfaction, or even frustration. So if God is not truly the basis | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| currents, a congestion occurs, and the result is frustration for the human being. If the passive forces | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| seek. You may be hurt. The person in frustration often turns to God. The feeling is, God | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| The price for your unconscious pseudo-protection is the frustration of the legitimate desire. This is very important | 38 IMAGES |
| child that it is not sufficiently loved. This frustration causes the child to feel rejected, which, in | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| To the degree a child experiences fear and frustration, to that same degree will fear and frustration | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| frustration, to that same degree will fear and frustration unconsciously be felt toward God. God is then | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| authority to a greater extent than fear and frustration. Let us assume that overindulging and doting parents | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| occasionally also later, when experiencing a hurt, disappointment, frustration, or rejection, wishes to die. When analyzing this | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| gratified -- and it never can -- the frustration becomes absolute. It is impossible, of course, for | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| no better than the rest of humankind. The frustration becomes a double one; the first desire -- | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| subtle little fears in your soul, to the frustration and anxiety you cannot quite understand and for | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| what it desired, most particularly objects, perhaps. This frustration, in addition to certain other personality disturbances strengthening | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and impatience. Since it cannot function, it brings frustration as well, and with that a renewed doubt | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| usually leave a taste of dissatisfaction and even frustration, whereas the result brought about by the inner | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| power on either side, because of impatience and frustration, sometimes disregard God's laws and try by compulsion | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| it is not what you really desire. Your frustration and unhappiness always has this conflict at the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| of your original desire, and then of your frustration, and then of what you do in your | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| and then of what you do in your frustration, and then of the forcing current in you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| The next layer might be anger, resentment, anxiety, frustration. Behind all these reactions you will find the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| growing pain, free of bitterness, tension, anxiety, and frustration. There are also those who tolerate the pain | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you to correct. Your fear, your self-punishment, your frustration, your anger, your hostility, your withdrawal from giving | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you are bound to have difficulties, unfulfillment and frustration. The difficulties may either be outer obstacles, or | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| inactive. Your innermost nature rebels against such great frustration because it is against nature, against creation, and | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| so, if it is supposed to be accomplished, frustration accrues because the person does not realize that | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ineffectual. This paralyzes success, which, in turn, causes frustration. The frustration causes frenzied compulsion, which manifests as | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| paralyzes success, which, in turn, causes frustration. The frustration causes frenzied compulsion, which manifests as impatience, so | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or to protect yourself against the disappointment and frustration of not getting what you want. Since such | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| when you examine your feelings of disappointment or frustration, you will find their true intensity and significance | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| feelings must be some original wish and its frustration. When you find this, you can determine how | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| can understand it by seeing the degree of frustration and anxiety an unfulfillment creates in us. ANSWER | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| way if for no other reason than the frustration of not knowing instantly by what particular attitude | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the cause. What is done in impatience, haste, frustration, or fear inevitably slows down the process of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| any limitations of your wish would create unbearable frustration of your exaggerated belief that the nonfulfillment of | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| weakness, be it pride, vanity, self-will, rebellion, insecurity, frustration, or whatever. Even if these inner motives are | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| not my idealized self. A sense of failure, frustration, and compulsion, as well as guilt and shame | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| physical symptoms of all sorts. Anger, fury, shame, frustration, self-contempt, and self-hate exist for two reasons. They | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| guilt, shame, a feeling of inadequacy, and therefore frustration and self-contempt. Let us now consider the third | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| painful at first, because the emotions of anxiety, frustration, guilt, shame, and so on, have to be | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| roots. It may be a substitute for the frustration of not being able to receive the pleasure | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| self-centered, the personality also becomes self-centered. Self-centeredness brings frustration, anxiety, tension, compulsion, guilt and insecurity, to name | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| creative forces, which in turn cause anxiety and frustration, among other feelings. Since both instincts exist in | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| powerful authority make safety and happiness impossible, cause frustration and unhappiness. Here you are, the helpless, unloved | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you want to penetrate the resistance, the more frustration and impatience you will feel. And this is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| useful to analyze the reason for your own frustration and impatience. It may be more than the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| maturity is the ability to take criticism and frustration in a relaxed, constructive way. Mature people can | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| others. Hence, you will not fear criticism, nor frustration, nor failure as if they were a plague | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| first have to learn to live with the frustration of an unfulfilled need. You will see that | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| have self-respect. This is the ability to take frustration with the mature attitude that unfulfillment is not | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| either/or attitude. It is impossible to withstand the frustration of an unfulfilled need if you regard the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| of an unfulfilled need if you regard the frustration as a permanent state. In that case you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| a wrong decision and thereby incur criticism or frustration, will plunge you into despair. All this is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I have to experience imperfect situations, unfulfillment and frustration. Therefore, I must become perfect in a hurry | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with equanimity. You will no longer feel any frustration or unhappiness as a disaster. You will give | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| along the line. If this proves impossible, the frustration becomes unbearable, and you find yourself trapped, caught | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| your needs will enable you to tolerate temporary frustration. You will be capable of relinquishing the urgent | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| a pitch that it becomes impossible to stand frustration. Inability to tolerate frustration is one of the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| becomes impossible to stand frustration. Inability to tolerate frustration is one of the marks of immaturity. This | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of immaturity. This lack of gratification combined with frustration then confirms that you are wrong in having | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| pursue their gratification. In order to do so, frustration sometimes becomes necessary and can be endured. Unawareness | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| immature, unconscious condition in which you cannot stand frustration prevails. You cannot relinquish even the slightest immediate | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| negative condition. If you are unable to stand frustration, unable to relinquish, because you dare not face | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| that has brought you much unnecessary misery and frustration. Are there any questions now? QUESTION: How do | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| is impossible to face reality, to cope with frustration, to relinquish an illusion connected to it. As | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| QUESTION: When you begin to realize this deep frustration, this deep aggression you have, which is caused | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| important, where it stems from, and what the frustration and need behind it really mean. Therefore each | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| being met, it is not only a new frustration; it is the same hurt from childhood experienced | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| others is so distorted that you feel any frustration as personal rejection and as proof of your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| factors in your life. The self-estranged person experiences frustration as much more painful than the unfulfillment of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| failure to fulfill implies your inferiority. Fear of frustration of pleasure is not so acute because you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to give -- and to stand the temporary frustration, you have reached a much greater area of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| conveyed in words. This inability causes pressure and frustration. You cannot find the right words because spiritual | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| reality. You can accept it. You can accept frustration. Your life is not at stake because you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| life in a distorted way. That is why frustration cannot be borne by the person who is | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| joy and sadness; happiness and tragedy; fulfillment and frustration. The real self can deal with both, the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| had chosen awareness you would see that much frustration is unnecessary and can be eliminated by changing | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| has been laboriously prepared in daydreaming; this causes frustration. In truth, reality is infinitely more satisfying than | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| their blindness, irresponsibility, and undiscovered powerful currents of frustration and hurt, had absolutely nothing to do with | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| of love or attention. It causes as much frustration as the lack of love, or even cruelty | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| to develop destructive defenses. The original pain and frustration the child could not deal with is repressed | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| that is bound to bring you pain, hurt, frustration, unfulfillment. You chose a way out of pain | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| You chose a way out of pain and frustration, but this way has proven not only inadequate | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| before you go through the original pain and frustration you had run away from. You have to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| experienced as a child? Is it really the frustration the child suffered from the parents, and nothing | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| It is true that the original pain and frustration have afflicted the resiliency of your psyche and | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| your present unfulfilled needs cause the pain. Your frustration will be with your inability, at this time | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| becoming aware of your needs and of the frustration of their unfulfillment, you will find first the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| until this stage is reached. Thus a double frustration is caused -- and this generates tremendous pressure | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| not believe, my friends, that the pressure, the frustration did not exist before you became aware of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| receive. You need to feel and observe the frustration of the accumulated pressure, the momentary helplessness about | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| of your repression of it and the consequent frustration of the healthy fulfillment of receiving. If you | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| as a supposed mortal danger, but also against frustration of your will, and thus against anything that | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| because you believe, erroneously, that any hurt or frustration, any criticism or rejection is a danger you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| unreal danger. Such dangers are emotional hurt, rejection, frustration of your will, and criticism. When you feel | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you really endangered or threatened because of hurt, frustration, or criticism? You, yourself, will have to verify | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| an accusation which you believe might bring rejection, frustration, and hurt. At that moment, it becomes more | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| having one's own way. The maturity to withstand frustration and to relinquish one's will is a prerequisite | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| immaturity. The stronger the urgency, the greater the frustration must be. It does not matter whether this | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| less self-willed, less concerned with rejection or the frustration of your immediate will, you would develop the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| in your efforts, and will experience failure and frustration. Often you may erroneously believe that such a | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| That is why depression is always linked with frustration and helplessness. For, strangely enough, you do not | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| degree you relate, you will no longer experience frustration but have a sense of fulfillment. The scale | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| live in bitter isolation which, in turn, breeds frustration. These, then, are the barriers to your well | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| to because of a childish inability to stand frustration. Before fulfillment can come, the various steps I | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| teach your soul to be able to stand frustration without repression or anger. This has the healing | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| stand anything going against your will. You fear frustration so you do not willingly go along with | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| time dimension. Listlessness, depression, impatience, nervousness, anxiety, tension, frustration, boredom, apathy, and hostility -- all these emotions | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| maturity we seek is the ability to tolerate frustration, and to accept that everything does not always | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| and dependent and insecure. If you can accept frustration, you will have the confidence of knowing that | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| a child, as well as anger for the frustration, must create shame. This tendency completely contradicts the | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| fixations and thus set the life force free. Frustration, every lack of fulfillment, self-dislike, guilt, disease, lack | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| height, being executed in peace and harmony. Tension, frustration, irritation -- these constant companions that result from | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| which at last unquestionably explain discontent, unfulfillment, tension, frustration, and other hindrances to full living. The deep | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| or when it experiences any degree of pain. Frustration of pleasure or infliction of pain cause violent | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| noticeable, after extensive progress in self- awareness. Tension, frustration, discontent, inexplicable hostility, overreaction -- where one sees | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| be expected. You will therefore avoid disappointment and frustration. I do not mean to imply that the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| it. This saves you from undue overreaction, tension, frustration, and the inner disorder and imbalance which is | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| exist. By repressing needs, the imagined pain of frustration is supposed to be eliminated. In reality, the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| facts, being able to first stand the possible frustration of your will, then wisdom and perception of | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| mature you sufficiently to be able to tolerate frustration if need be. This discipline of self-awareness and | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| this respect. Your present readiness to tolerate the frustration of your will and to relinquish it if | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| so. When you are capable of enduring the frustration of your will with equanimity and harmony, you | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| rosy illusion due to your unwillingness to tolerate frustration. So, my friends, look at this inevitable chain | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| the service of the no-current: fear, guilt, anger, frustration, hostility, etc. These feelings continue to smolder, but | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| no-current. You may be sure it exists if frustration remains in your life in spite of having | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| from the petrification itself which you experience as frustration and pain, and partly from your pathwork -- | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| its aspects. Then only can you relive the frustration and pain you suffered as a child, and | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| very destructive defenses against the original pain and frustration. One of them is an unusually strong no-current | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| selfwill, forcing-current, childish greed, the inability to stand frustration, fearful withdrawal, tension, the compulsive need to manipulate | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| of both are loneliness, resentment, self-pity, self-contempt, and frustration. When two people involved in a relationship have | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |