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In that respect, and in that respect alone, he felt helpless. He wanted to feel helpless there, for the reasons given. He has since realized at various times that the method has outlived its purpose—but the resulting feeling of helplessness has impeded his progress. The will and its power must therefore be inserted in that area. He is amazingly resilient. The cold to some extent restored the gums, by activating defensive mechanisms in the mouth and head regions.

To his way of thinking he cut out all excess baggage, so he had a spare diet, physically speaking. Because the body has its own sense there were always periods when it rebelled, when physical improvements showed. But the power of Ruburt’s will was not directed in those terms. The power of his will said “We are not ready yet. We are still working on one challenge,” so it seemed, finally, that he was powerless or helpless to alter the rigidity of his body.

(Long pause at 7:46, one of many.) If Ruburt once found himself imagining that he must be strong and perfect enough to help solve everyone else’s problems, now he found himself relatively helpless, and “undefended” —that is, his physical condition put him in a situation certainly where he felt helpless. [...]

(Very long pause at 7:50.) So contrary to its own beliefs, and helpless or not, Ruburt was holding his own. [...]

[...] The belief that you are limited in energy and that you are inferior, and that you are helpless. As long as you believe you are helpless, you are helpless. [...]

You think of yourself (to Brad) as a “closed physical personality”—weak and helpless—in a world that you do not understand. [...]

[...] None of you are helpless to change events, to change your health or your reality at this moment. [...] Every time you say, I am helpless, and I am slipping into chaos, whether you get laughs or not, or whether you say it humorously or not, you are indeed pushing yourself further into the chaos you are creating with every breath you take because you make no effort to change the nature of your thoughts and this is what you must do, exert your own control. [...]

[...] Stop seeing yourself as helpless. [...]

3. I am helpless before circumstances that I cannot control.

4. I am helpless because my personality and character were formed in infancy, and I am at the mercy of my past.

5. I am helpless because I am at the mercy of events from past lives in other incarnations, over which I now have no control. [...]

[...] Helplessness when laying flat, you see, unconscious and in bed. [...]

[...] He felt helpless to push away his difficulties, and unable to support himself.

But when you are born again into a tiny and helpless organism and when your intellect may still be operating strongly, then there is a shock, for you cannot do what you want to do. [...]

It does you no good as an infant to recall your success of a life past in your terms, for then you feel twice as helpless. [...]

[...] He stood helplessly on stage in the spotlight, wearing brightly colored stage clothes like a comedian might. [...]

[...] It is only when the us-ness of the self begins to fade that a sense of relative personal helplessness begins to mar the picture of subjective experience. [...]

The father, your father, represents to him, Ruburt, the helpless portions of his own mother, directed so to speak where he can see them. [...]

[...] Now he in his helplessness pays her back, and she rages against him. [...]

[...] If your father did have daughters, rather than sons in the life that you know, he actually would have fared better in the physical world, because he would have felt it his duty to protect them financially: he would have considered them fairly helpless, and in need of his abilities. [...]

To ask you for help therefore was to put himself in the position of his mother, and plead helplessness. [...]

[...] He thinks fears are an admission of helplessness, that you always wanted someone who was free and independent, and that you would have no use for anyone in that position.

[...] I guess I was thinking that it’s even okay to have fears, even strong ones, without going all the way with them so that they end up rendering one helpless. [...]

[...] “Now I don’t feel helpless—I don’t have to lay here and call for somebody. [...]

[...] The young generation sits by, apparently helpless while the parents rule the world. But the young helpless ones mature, and they grow and they become parents. [...]

[...] They are afraid that left alone their energy might strike out against others, and so they short-circuit its use, having attacks that momentarily render themselves helpless.

Jane died in the hospital at 2:08 a.m. on Wednesday, September 5, 1984, after being there, quite helpless in certain ways, for a year and nine months. [...]

[...] She attempts to dominate him in her own way, and on a subconscious basis, and it is indeed by appealing to him through helplessness. [...]

[...] To see my wonderful, lovely wife so reduced to her present near-helpless state was almost more than I could bear. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Maybe its actually when I feel most ambitious that I begin to feel most helpless, since I began to realize how little I’m actually doing. [...]