The second cause of depression is to have such a great vision about which you can do nothing, and you get depressed. You can feel this in a different way when you visit a great man and think to yourself, "What am I? Nothing..."
When you feel that there is a great power, Infinite Space, and you feel small, you may feel depressed. This is why so many people are depressed -- not because of their guilt but because they confront something beyond their comprehension.
Instead of falling into depression, you can take one small step at a time. One little step will take you closer to your vision.
You love humanity. Then you turn on the television, and everybody is killing each other. "I don't want to write and read and pray any more. It's not working," you say. This is spiritual depression. You try to solve a mathematical problem, but it is so big and you cannot solve it. This is mental depression. You love somebody so deeply, but she hates you. This is emotional depression.
All such depressions at various times play their games with you, but because you do not really know what your depression is, you do not see that you are really depressed in certain moments, in certain levels. The causes, you know now, are guilt feelings and great visions you cannot reach.
-Torkom Saraydarian
New Dimensions in Healing
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