Frustration
- "There are many things that create frustration and that generate anger.
- Certainly, failed expectations is one cause.
- Having your desires be thwarted or held back is another cause.
- And being unwilling or unable to express your deeper feelings is another cause of anger and frustration."[1]
"All your frustration in life is your inability to experience and to express this love which wishes to flow from you."[2]
"You have come here to do something. If you do not do it, you will feel very confused and frustrated.This is difficult to comprehend because you tend to blame your circumstances for this frustration."[3]
Directive
"Seek freedom from ambivalence, for this is the source of all human confusion, misery and frustration."[4]
"Let not the power of the world’s frustration and confusion overtake you today, but hold the light of God within your heart."[5]
Colder and colder the Fire of Knowledge, hotter frustration and anger
"As you approach Knowledge, your life becomes more full, more certain and more direct. As you go away from it, you reenter confusion, frustration and anger."[6]
"Unless you have learned of error and can look at it objectively and understand how it has arisen and how it can be relieved—until you have learned these things—you will not know how to serve others, and their errors will anger you and frustrate you. With Knowledge your expectations will be in harmony with the nature of another. With Knowledge you will learn how to serve and you will forget how to condemn."[7]
"All the world’s gifts are momentary and transitory. As you honor them, your fear of losing them will increase. As you hold them to yourself, your anxiety about death and destruction will be enhanced, and you will re-enter confusion and frustration. But with Knowledge, you may possess things in the world without identifying with them."[8]
How to attain great frustration
"You believe that by perfecting your personality or body you will attain great heights, yet we assure you, you will attain great frustration."[9]
"People are very covetous of their personal freedom, and yet what has it given them but greater isolation and frustration?"[10]
How to annihilate frustration
Our work is to provide a shift into the Impersonal, for until that happens and becomes a foundation for perception and decision making, your life will still seem reckless and inconsistent. You will go from happiness to sadness, back and forth, back and forth. You will have brief moments of insight and long periods of emptiness and frustration." [11]
"Though the world is a difficult and frustrating place to be, it is a natural recipient of Knowledge. Its difficulties and its frustrations need not affect your internal state, which is becoming ever more unified and harmonious."[12]
References
- ↑ Dealing with Anger and Frustration (August 5)
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 207: Love is flowing from me now.
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 19: Fulfillment
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 274: I seek freedom from ambivalence today.
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 303: I will step back from the world’s persuasions today.
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 37: There is a way to Knowledge.
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 77: Review.
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 307: Knowledge is living within me now.
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 1: The Greater Religion
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 7: Freedom
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 11: Power and Responsibility
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 327: I will be at peace today.
See also
Further Study
- Steps to Knowledge, Steps 138, 236, 243, 251, 259, 263, 282, 312, 349,
- Dealing with Anger and Frustration (August 5)