Question: Sometimes I feel hopeless and helpless.
Sri Chinmoy: You must never feel that you are hopeless. If you feel that you are hopeless, then I wish to say that you are worse than hopeless. And if you feel that you are helpless, then I wish to say that you are really helpless. At that time, I can’t help you at all, and no one else can help you. You are not hopeless and helpless. You are God’s child. From Delight you came into existence, in Delight you grow and at the end of your journey’s close, into Delight you will retire. This is what you must feel.
Sri Chinmoy, Flame-Waves, part 12, Agni Press, 1978