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[...] It does mean that you are not powerless to change events and that each of you, regardless of your position, status, circumstances or physical condition, is in control of your own personal experience.

You are not powerless before ideas. [...]

[...] He believed in the absolute necessity of power, while convinced at the same time that he did not possess it; and further, he believed that in the most basic terms the individual was powerless to alter the devastating march of evil and corruption that he saw within the country, and in all the other countries of the world. [...]

[...] By insanity, I mean a situation in which the conscious mind is forced into a state of powerlessness. [...]

[...] They may be called shadows and yet they are not powerless. [...]

[...] If you are idealists, and if you feel relatively powerless in the world at the same time, and if your idealism is general and grandiose, unrelated to any practical plans for its expression, then you can find yourself in difficulties indeed. [...]

For a portion of the self that is relatively so powerless, this is quite presumptive. [...]

[...] Otherwise you will feel disillusioned, or powerless, or sure, again, that only drastic, highly unideal methods will ever bring about the achievement of a given ideal state or situation.

[...] You will also feel powerless to combat it.

[...] Stop telling yourself that you are powerless and that there is nothing you can do to change your mood. [...]

[...] These freedoms used, particularly in view of Ruburt’s literal-mindedness, would do much to weaken the beliefs in powerlessness that exist.

(9:54.) They grew up believing that the conscious mind was relatively powerless, that adult experience was set in the days of infancy. [...]

In his normal condition Augustus thought of his own powerlessness — for he had denied himself normal aggressive action — and felt this weak. [...]

[...] In that area a sense of powerlessness grew.

1. According to Seth, then, feelings of powerlessness would have much to do with the especially high rate of violence — even to the death — among American servicemen who had once been prisoners of war. [...]

[...] It seems to exert force or pressure against you, or to impinge upon you, or at least almost to happen by itself, so that you sometimes feel powerless against it. [...]

[...] This resulting feeling of powerlessness to act leads to a state of hopelessness of varying degrees — and that mood does not tie itself to specific details, but pervades emotional life if it is allowed to. [...]

Whenever you think that you have a headache simply because you have a headache; or you bump into a door simply because you bump into a door; or you have an accident simply because you happen to be in a particular place at a particular time; whenever you feel yourself powerless, then you think that accidents happen and that you have no control over them. [...]

[...] You are overemphasizing the negative aspects of that situation, and the overemphasis makes you feel trapped and powerless. [...]

You can learn to dismiss it—not as a reality to which others may not give acquiescence, but one that you realize is basically powerless. [...]