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When the peak is reached then self-pity controls your emotions so completely that there seems to be no escape. In a mood of self-pity there is indeed an almost perverted luxury, the luxury of despair, for despair says: There is nothing I can do, and relieves you of any responsibility for change. This applies not to you only but to such a state in general. You become incapable of getting out of yourself, even to the extent of enjoying small pleasures and, little by little it seems every joy is withdrawn from you until nothing is left but despair.

Individually, each “victim” was to one extent or another a “victim” of apathy, despair, or hopelessness, which automatically lowered bodily defenses.

Initially there is a psychic contagion: Despair moves faster than a mosquito, or any outward carrier of a given disease. [...]

(Pause at 10:16.) Despair may seem passive only because it feels that exterior action is hopeless — but its fires rage inwardly, and that kind of contagion can leap from bed to bed and from heart to heart. [...]

When you love life very deeply then it is very easy to despair, and when you compare ideal human relations to the relations that exist in the world as it is, it is very easy to despair; but if you give in to despair then you cannot see the beauty that does exist for the despair will eat it through like lye; and so hold on to the beauty and guard it and the vitality of your thoughts and emotions and your natural vitality as you would your life, for it is your life. [...]

[...] Her mood had been very despairing for most of the day. [...]

(I also said that I thought today’s material was the result of Jane’s reading that intro after breakfast yesterday, which had triggered her day-long black mood of despair. [...]

[...] On the other hand, many who speak most glowingly, in the most idealistic fashions, underneath are filled with the darkest aspects of pessimism and despair. [...]

Roger speaks the same way in any social group, and therefore to that extent spreads a negative and despairing aura. [...]

[...] But in the meantime he is dealing with dark periods of despair.

I keep trying to clear up certain matters for you, in the manner of a teacher, without offending your sensibilities, spurring you onward, but not wanting you to become despairing or dissatisfied overall with the state of your progress. [...]

(It’s events like this that make me despair, for once again I see Jane going along in the same old way, and wonder what, if anything, has been learned out of all of this. [...]

[...] Now even in her position, she made efforts to get across to you, and bridges that could cross her own fear to you, but you were not able to meet her because you feared the chasm of despair within yourself.

[...] Within yourself you will find more than despair, Carl. [...]

[...] Because the entire mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual portions of the self are always stimulated to seek further growth and development and satisfaction, then it is quite possible for the mind to seize upon even the smallest event that will spontaneously release the person at least momentarily from depression, or even despair.

If many of your letters are from those in need, this also shows that people, who were previously in despair at finding any methods to help themselves, now want all the information they can get. [...]

[...] You will feel aggressive, happy, despairing, or determined according to events that happen to you, your beliefs about yourself in relation to them, and your ideas of who and what you are. [...]

Know that yearning is made up of feelings of despair caused by a sense of powerlessness, not of power. [...]

[...] I reacted very badly at times, I’m afraid, alternating profound moods of despair with those of great tenderness, love, and compassion. [...]

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[...] Epidemics of Beliefs, and Effective Mental ‘Inoculations’ Against Despair.”

Most criminals act out of a sense of despair. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The saint and the sinner (pause) each had access to great depths of possible heroism or despair. [...]

Some people write to you in their triumphs and in their despairs, giving you, all-in-all, a library of unique, private reading matter, capsule biographies of the people of your time and country. [...]

[...] You were both growing very bitter, your idealism turning into a disillusionment that could most easily have turned into despair. [...]

[...] On his part, he must make an effort to rise above the reinforced feelings of despair, and to assure himself that his body can perform adequately with time, and following these suggestions.

[...] Psychologically alone this is beneficial, for it acts against those feelings of despair that can creep up during the winter season. [...]

[...] As a result, the idealized love becomes more and more inaccessible, with the growth of more guilt and despair.