ABSTRACT
People often joke about guilt and its relationship to spirituality, or more frequently, religion. Spirituality is supposed to enhance life. Perhaps the power of spiritual anxiety or dis-ease is related to the fact that it is often connected to the great existential issues such as meaning and purpose in life, or the nature and meaning of death. Significant byproduct of anxiety is anger, which emerges out of spiritual disease and can become a basic driving force in a person's life. Anger may best be described as a combination of uneasiness, discomfort, tenseness, resentment, and frustration.' Anger, which has been seen to be an incredibly destructive emotion, is balanced by the concepts of forgiveness and/or reconciliation. A similar consequence of unresolved spiritual distress is hopelessness. One major difference between helplessness and hopelessness is the point of focus. Helplessness is focused outward, while hopelessness is focused inward.
