“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It was a moment of momentary (underlined) terror, as the ego realized that what it fought against and what it would continue, though ineffectually, to fight against, was indeed no enemy to it but a most familiar omnipresent inner self, against which it was now powerless. [...]

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He did have some support from you, for you see you were far from powerless this time. [...]

Now, when it seems to you that you are powerless, it is because you are denying the authority that lies within yourself, closing our mind to the answers that are as free as air. [...]

When he thinks in such terms he sees an old woman, crippled and alone, incapacitated, in a home, and the fear brings a feeling of powerlessness, not one of strength. [...]

Incidentally again, when I mentioned that paintings also experienced a certain consciousness I meant to add that they are not completely powerless even on your own plane, since they do exist in it. [...]

When large doses of chemicals are used, the conscious mind is confronted full blast with very potent experiences that it was not meant to handle, and by which it is purposely made to feel powerless. [...]

[...] Especially when they leave their student powerless to resist, though this is somewhat of an exaggeration. [...]

[...] It realizes in that regard a sense of powerlessness, for to some extent it is philosophically cut off from its own source of power. [...]

[...] She did not change the mark she had given however, so Marian and her husband went to the school principal; this individual said he was powerless in such cases.

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[...] Your terror as a child gave you an inner idea of reality and family group whereby you saw yourself completely powerless and helpless under the domination of this father figure. [...]

[...] If I presume to solve problems for you, then I deny you your own power, and further reinforce any feelings of powerlessness that you have. [...]

[...] The belief in these highly contrasting elements of personality keep him in a state of turmoil, however, so that he feels powerless to act in any concerted fashion.