“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Your help, again, with the suggestions is invaluable in terms of your loving active aid—but also because you are convincing yourself that you live in a safe universe, so that Ruburt does not feel that he must battle for himself and for you. [...]

Each day became a battle in which what he loved to do had to be transformed into work, with all of its unnatural connotations—to him. [...]

Each day became a battle to turn play into work, structure it, and make it personally and socially acceptable. [...]

You may find yourself, for example, in the middle of a battle that was once planned in some general’s mind, a battle that never materialized in physical reality. In such a case, incidentally, you were not a part of the battle and could not be harmed. [...]

[...] A great painting of a battle scene, for example, may show the ability of the artist as he projects in all its appalling drama the inhuman and yet all-too-human conditions of war. [...]

[...] There has been some success with people who imagine that the cancer is instead some hated enemy or monster or foe, which is then banished through mental mock battles over a period of time. [...]

[...] You fought a battle with yourself however over the noise issue, and this more than the lack of sleep leaves you in need, now, of that refreshment that sleep can bring.

[...] To be relieved of these is half the battle.

A small battle and a storm. [...]

He battles his beliefs about age, yet he is frightened that with age comes complacency, stagnation. [...]

[...] You must try to battle these for her until she can do so again for herself. [...]

[...] “Once” the gods walked the earth, and waged battles in the skies and seas. [...]

[...] He died with a small group of men in a cave that he held as a point of refuge in the middle of a battle, killed by members of another sect. [...]

[...] Even a life centuries ago may be perfect in detail however if it included, for example, battles or events of great import, where the dates themselves were impressed upon the personalities because of the occurrences at those times.

[...] There is in such cases a constant battle of forms.

[...] This occurring somewhat further west but in the same general area, involving Indians down from Canada and an 1852 or 1856 resolution of this battle. [...]

[...] To send our young to the battle field under those circumstances, then, to deprive individuals of the one life — the one priceless, irreplaceable attribute — seems the worst crime imaginable, I told Jane. [...]

This session you read (the 367th) applied mostly to Ruburt, yet you also have what I will call an overly conscientious self in battle with the spontaneous self (a fact I’m well aware of, and had discussed with Jane before tonight’s session). [...]

[...] When such natural impulses toward action are constantly denied over a period of time, when they are distrusted, when an individual feels in battle with his or her own impulses and shuts down the doors toward probable actions, then that intensity can explode into whatever avenue of escape is still left open.

[...] There is no battle for survival—but while you project such an idea upon natural reality, then you will read nature, and your own experiences with it, in that fashion.

[...] One of the primary attitudes, however, had to do with trying “to fight all battles at once” —a good many of them imaginary. [...]