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[...] Otherwise you will be too afraid to abandon even briefly the habitual, organized view of the world that is your own.

[...] If you are afraid, then your own fear stands between yourself and others. [...]

I suggested that you take it (but see my note in the material at next break). It would have been good for you both, but you were afraid of it, and your feelings had much to do with the contract being turned down (by the Veteran’s Administration). That house represented what each of you thought of as unbridled, undisciplined creativity. [...]

(“On second thought I’m afraid we’ll have to wait. …” I’d just realized how tired I was.)

[...] Do not be afraid of change, for you are change, and you change as you sit before me. [...]

[...] Many who say they believe in the power of thought are so afraid of it that they inhibit it in themselves, avoiding any that appear negative or harmful. [...]

[...] He was afraid that the spontaneous self would go overboard in that direction. [...]

[...] Later he told us he was afraid the table would either crash into the ceiling—since Carl was tall enough—or would hit a nearby wall where several of my paintings hung.

[...] He must not be so afraid, then, of losing the teeth—and then perhaps he can save them. [...]

[...] He thought it was natural for him to be afraid of life because his mother was.

[...] At that time in your development you were afraid of emotions in art to such a degree that you chose in comics to deal with stereotypes rather than individual characters, to follow rigid patterns.

[...] He is not, I’m afraid, her favorite relative. [...]

I’m afraid that I did most of the talking in our “discussion,” but once again we tried to view our lives in some sort of joint mental and physical perspective. [...]

I told her I think that on those levels she really doesn’t want to hold the sessions anymore, that we’re surrounded by clues to that effect, that such a strong part of her is now so against her psychic work, so afraid of its implications—of being swept away, of going counter to her early religious imprinting—that her fear has put her in an impossible position physically. [...]

But I was afraid as I thought of what could happen to her while she kept on working. [...]

[...] I am trying to loosen Ruburt up here, for he is always afraid of wrong results, and this hampers me.

[...] How can you want to know the future so badly, and be so afraid of knowing it at the same time?

[...] I was afraid of making a fool of myself, but Rob dragged me out on the dance floor. [...]

(Long pause.) The emotions connected with these bridge beliefs may indeed surprise you, but standing upon such unifying structures you are also free to let the emotional flow sweep past, feeling it, but aware for the first time, perhaps, of the origin of those feelings in your beliefs, and no longer afraid of being swept away by them.

I am afraid that is all I can give you on that impression.

[...] We will only cover them rather superficially, I’m afraid, now; and go into them more deeply in connection with other topics. [...]

[...] He was afraid his stock would be gone.

[...] Many of you are afraid that without a feeling of guilt there would be no inner discipline, and the world would run wild. [...]

[...] This is not necessary, but in the beginning, I am afraid it is natural.

One of the Roman soldiers, Maumee, and Nebene are mentioned in Appendix 21; see the excerpts there from the private session for November 18, 1974, as well as Note 1. Then see the comments Seth made the next evening in ESP class: “There are, of course, future memories as well as past ones … As Joseph often says: ‘When you think of reincarnation, you do so in terms of past lives.’ You are afraid to consider future lives because then you have to face the death that must be met first, in your terms. [...]