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| justice. Thus, the fear is actually about being helplessly exposed to an evil force and not so | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| if you resent another person and you are helplessly caught in the resentment. Your emotions become so | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| produce other destructive patterns. Or, if you continued helplessly in the pattern despite the given promise, you | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| before you can recognize the predicament of feeling helplessly trapped between the only two dissatisfying alternatives you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| real self. My dear friends, whenever you are helplessly trapped in a situation in which all available | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| life and fate and unalterable circumstances. Then you helplessly await fate's favor, and if it fails to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you wish to remain the child who waits helplessly for life to fulfill its needs without the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| their own resources. Mature adults do not wait helplessly to be loved, however. Love comes to them | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| you fear you may not be liked and helplessly hope that perhaps you might be. Meanwhile, what | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you may not succeed in a venture, passively, helplessly waiting for fate to determine the desired outcome | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to life, you will say yes. Instead of helplessly waiting for others, or fate, or life, to | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| brings incredible liberation from guilt, unhappiness, frustration, from helplessly waiting for something that others can never provide | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| quite clear. Children who feel hurt, rejected, and helplessly exposed to pain and deprivation often find that | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| mysterious and random fate to which one was helplessly exposed, over which one had no control, becomes | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of feelings. The fear that you will be helplessly swept away by your feelings, once they become | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| in a truly deep way, without rendering you helplessly dependent on anyone else. Thus you avoid a | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| grows to the extent he feels victimized and helplessly entrapped in his own prison. His reason for | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| all of your destructive aspects and were therefore helplessly controlled by them, indicating that you believed them | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
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| I could at least avoid the humiliation, the helplessness, and the degradation of being punished by forces | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a terribly high and unnecessary price in unhappiness, helplessness, and hopelessness. To be adult in the true | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| As a child, the human being encounters disappointment, helplessness, and rejection -- both real and imagined. These | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| last analysis, such people claim an imperfection, a helplessness, a submissiveness that are not genuine. They use | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| such domination must always manifest in soft, weak helplessness. It is no wonder that a person engulfed | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| types who glorify failure, because it proves their helplessness and forces others to give them love and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| pseudo-solution, the quest for love, predominate, vulnerability and helplessness increase until the soul is actually endangered. The | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the main image, is always the feeling of helplessness in the face of a difficulty that the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hostile, dangerous world, but also cover up the helplessness of having to adopt rules one inwardly rebels | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this yoke. So you see how the basic helplessness links the God-image and the idealized self-image, creating | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and dependent attitude. False religion encouraged fear, dependency, helplessness, and a humiliating, though often very subtle, tendency | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| may be certain that fear, cringing appeasement, and helplessness also exist, though hidden from awareness. The shame | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| appeasement, try to find not only the clinging helplessness, but also the hidden resentment that God has | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| blind obedience. Both causes produce personalities distorted by helplessness, false goodness, and appeasement; or overindependence, rebellion, and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and hostility; in the other, you hide the helplessness and desire for protection, the tendency to appease | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| not only fail to eliminate your self- imposed helplessness, you encourage it, as well as encouraging false | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| goal. Take any negative emotion: envy, bitterness, fear, helplessness -- and most indicative of all, self-pity. Once | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| that it is responsible for your weakness, your helplessness, your enduring fear of life. But you combat | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a benign circle, negative emotions such as self-pity, helplessness, hostility, guilt, and resentment are bound to decrease | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| gratifications. This then causes the neurotic symptoms of helplessness, dependency, inability to make a choice, and of | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| hope for life to offer a solution. This helplessness and weakness points to the immature, distorted part | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| are trapped in the crisis of confusion and helplessness, you are bound to find that there is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| outside your control. Wherever such a state of helplessness exists, there must be an underlying problem, an | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| problem. Any way you wish to formulate it, helplessness, powerlessness, paralysis of your faculties are the results | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| person ask where there may be feelings of helplessness, weakness, self-pity, of being subjected to the misery | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| little later. If your pseudo-solution is submissiveness, weakness, helplessness and dependency as a means of having someone | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| a solution. Dependency on others creates fear and helplessness. It further diminishes your lack of belief in | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| see a way out, and thereby decrease your helplessness and increase your independent strength and resourcefulness. In | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the frustration of the accumulated pressure, the momentary helplessness about finding relief, the temptation to evade yet | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| all the accumulated inner pressure, with the accompanying helplessness, inadequacy, and confusion, is the final result. It | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| mind, the immaturity and inadequacy cause fear, clinging, helplessness, dependence; when wishful-thinking and greed, unacceptance of reality | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is answered, he will lose the sense of helplessness and of the arbitrariness of a willful God | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| why depression is always linked with frustration and helplessness. For, strangely enough, you do not feel helpless | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| will swamp you with all the despair of helplessness and insecurity you had never dared to face | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| Because the psychic forces have tended toward deliberate helplessness, the ego has remained weak and therefore now | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the one hand, you are afraid of your helplessness and do not give yourself the chance not | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| helpless, nor to test whether or not your helplessness is real. On the other, you are afraid | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| you persevere, you will find your fear of helplessness, since you also fear knowing that you need | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| correct? ANSWER: It is absolutely correct. The child's helplessness and insecurity makes him strive desperately for acceptance | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| she feels passive and helpless. The passivity and helplessness, as an aspect of femininity, is then felt | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| fears and associates with a state of humiliating helplessness. She erroneously feels that being hurt and being | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| a different angle. A woman fears the apparent helplessness of giving herself up, of surrendering herself. She | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| yearns for. When a woman refuses the apparent helplessness of self-surrender by exerting an artificial and unhealthy | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| are man or woman, you fear the apparent helplessness -- and therefore shame -- of giving over | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| then look at the causes of your own helplessness. Attaching the fear, or other negative emotions, to | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| have progressed, you there still maintain an imagined helplessness toward living, growing, and toward what life is | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| connection, that you discover (a) the feeling of helplessness, vague hope and fear that something should or | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you are suppressing or repressing your negative, destructive helplessness. Repression is merely another word for deception. But | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| foolishness and most certainly, it does not create helplessness in the face of abuse. Quite the contrary | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| and inner self. All suffering is related to helplessness. The greater the helplessness, the less the person | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| suffering is related to helplessness. The greater the helplessness, the less the person is able to avoid | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the numbing process, of weakening its impact. The helplessness continues to exist in adults whose psyches have | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| are always marked by this feeling of utter helplessness, while in the healthy areas this feeling is | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| this feeling is absent. It is obvious that helplessness and lack of control are very much connected | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| lack of control are very much connected. Since helplessness causes pain, pain causes numbness, and numbness leads | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| also connected with evil. On a broader scale, helplessness is one of humanity's greatest problems. The significance | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| your negativity and thereby compounding fear, guilt, and helplessness. When you let your destructiveness control you, you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| is possibly a wrong conclusion. The feeling of helplessness or powerlessness is again the self-perpetuating principle at | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| helpless and powerless. In reality, your weakness and helplessness is never due to the stronger will of | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| whether you remain in a vague climate of helplessness and hopelessness, or whether you decide to clarify | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| the desirable alternative of the two opposites. The helplessness and hopelessness, the wasted energy of the dualistic | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| of passivity. For the passive state then implies helplessness. The passive state must imply helplessness when activity | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| then implies helplessness. The passive state must imply helplessness when activity is rejected, feared, and avoided, for | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| activity is rejected, feared, and avoided, for then helplessness is a natural sequence, a direct result. If | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of love, resulting in increasing feelings of emptiness, helplessness, despair, and isolation. You then try to counteract | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| same token, passivity will hold no threat of helplessness, since you trust yourself and life. All this | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| dependency and lack of identity, of weakness and helplessness, because he or she feels remotely as though | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| with the person one is dependent on; weakness, helplessness, false humility -- therefore rage, anger, rebellion. The | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| violent rage, there is the feeling of absolute helplessness -- first toward the world that seems to | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| to experience the pain, agony, anger, violence and helplessness, you will truly come to see that it | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| not wish to know it. In such confusion, helplessness increases, the thus mounting inner tension seeks an | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| principle or femininity is often wrongly associated with helplessness, passivity, and inferiority, while the masculine principle or | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| denial of fulfillment. I have already mentioned the helplessness. I mentioned the frictions and constrictions when the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| out of misconception leads to a feeling of helplessness and the passivity that prevents the individual from | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| what she or he needs and wants. The helplessness and the feeling of being victimized are themselves | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| fate. We can dwell in self-pity, resentments, and helplessness and thus increase our weakness, paralysis, dependence, and | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| but where the blocks, the blindness, the imagined helplessness persist, you cannot contact your universal self. 3 | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| difficulty has been recognized you experience an unconscious helplessness and a sense of limitation. Then you become | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| growth, each victory over conflict, confusion, ignorance and helplessness, represent a new skill and mastery over life | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| commitment to find a new mastery over present helplessness and constriction, a commitment to life itself. The | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| makes the difference between suffering and peace, between helplessness and self-determination, between infantile dependency -- be it | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| to go into the abyss of fright, loneliness, helplessness, pain, and the anger generated by the suffering | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| more comprehensive vision eliminates the fallacy of human helplessness. The truth leads people to assume self-responsibility in | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| Your confusion will first breed a sense of helplessness and injustice. If you are not aware that | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| always hoping that your resentful, blaming self-pity and helplessness will convince life, others, fate, to give you | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| actual good intent, as well as behind apparent helplessness. The attitude of I cannot help but feel | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| of your disconnection is your growing feeling of helplessness and powerlessness: dependency on others, with its inevitable | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| are caught in a battle of blame, self-justification, helplessness, self-rejection and self- doubt. You cannot help but | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| the inner process of self-creation. The feeling of helplessness is overwhelming at this stage. Only when you | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| I have taught you how to experience pain, helplessness, rage. I have helped you to see and | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |