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(Pause.) Some individuals always see the worst side of things, and interpret any given perception in the most pessimistic light. In a low mood any individual is much more likely to react to pessimistic suggestions, and to interpret data in the same manner. Now this applies to any data, whether it be physical in the usual sense of the word, telepathic, clairvoyant or otherwise.

Now in any ordinary clairvoyant event, in a low mood, Ruburt or any individual may, according to time and circumstance, overemphasize or misinterpret information, overstating say, pessimistic elements. (Pause.) Personalities strongly (underlined) given to the need for self-punishment will consistently misinterpret such information, or any information.

The pessimists insist that nothing will work out right in the everyday world, and that is where you live. [...] Of course, his body does not realize that the pessimist’s views are the most intelligent, proper, sane and reasonable, and so it falls ill because the mind tells the body it has nothing to look forward to.

[...] I wrote one of my most pessimistic of poems:

Yet that same May, while I was writing the most pessimistic of poetry, I also remember a break in my mood, a quickening of spirit that was reflected in two poems of quite a different nature. [...]

[...] If you are also of a highly pessimistic nature, given to thoughts and feelings of potential disaster, then these thoughts will be quite faithfully reproduced in experience.

[...] Sometimes it is difficult to identify idealists, because they wear such pessimistic clothing that all you can see are the patterns of a sardonic nature, or of irony. [...]

[...] If you want to change the world for the better, but you believe it cannot be changed one whit, then you are a pessimist, and your idealism will only haunt you. [...]

[...] There are too many people who expect the worst from you, yet even then the creative self will try from Framework 2 to bring all resources possible, through dreams and intuitions, to alter that pessimistic progress.

[...] Georgia had told her Jeff had called me, and her version of the call was pessimistic indeed. [...]

[...] For all of their idealisms, both basically believed in a pessimistic view of the self. [...]

[...] He is quite open often, say, to making love, as you know now, but earlier you colored your reaction to him often through the pessimistic cast that both of you had allowed to slip over your perceptions.

Some pessimistic scientists would say: “Of course,” for man and animal alike are driven by their instincts, and man’s claim to free will is no more than an illusion.

[...] He was so intent upon performing all given, either exercise or posture, that he became discouraged and pessimistic. [...]

[...] He also stopped writing what he thought of as pessimistic poetry, which had performed the same function, allowing for the expression of fearful emotions. [...]

[...] If you are inclined to be pessimistic, most likely you will often have pessimistic dreams as well.

[...] These are really instances where the intellect has been trained to use only a portion of its abilities, to zoom in on the most pessimistic of any given series of probable actions — and then treat those as if they were facts.

[...] In the past you may have learned to consider things pessimistically. [...]

[...] I do not mean (be) pessimistic about them. [...]

[...] He was more pessimistic than you realized. [...]

[...] While you have been imagining the dwindling accounts and pessimistically thinking that after all the book may not sell, and to be practical you cannot be sure that the outline will sell and your efforts therefore have been knocking each other out.

[...] In those terms, each year of man’s existence in fact justifies a more optimistic rather than pessimistic view. [...]

[...] Yet your more educated beliefs lead you to an even more pessimistic picture, in which even the violent action of men and women who are driven to the extreme serves no purpose. [...]