In one way, on one level, such a personality seems to be operating “blind,” while in another it is aware of its accomplishments and challenges. Often a situation of unbalance is set up that would not exist had the personality not accepted the challenges and, hence, the potentials for an even greater development.

[...] Seth, here, adds to our understanding of Jane’s reactions to some of the challenges she took up 11 years ago. [...]

[...] This has nothing to do with so-called psychic phenomena, but the natural growth and development of a personality whenever it tries to go beyond its space and time context, and takes on challenges of such a nature.

[...] Because the inner fears were not recognized, no efforts were made to face them, challenge them, or conquer them. [...]

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[...] I’d say that some of them are classics of their kind; Jane’s own symbolism is beautifully illustrative of the way dreams can offer insights and solutions to very real physical challenges. [...]

[...] There is no reason for him to feel stupid or inferior because he chose a challenge for himself that few would take. [...]

[...] In each life we experience conditions that we have chosen beforehand, circumstances and challenges tailored to fit our own needs and develop our own abilities.

“The problem is a challenge set up by the entity for one of its own personalities, but the outcome is up to the personality involved. [...]

Seth answered, “This is characteristic of that entity, an impatience and yet a daring, because the situation represented such a challenge. [...]

[...] Seth said that she had solved the challenges she had set for herself, but in so doing had damaged her physical body to such an extent that she had decided to discard it. [...]

[...] If you are aware of a particular problem (challenge), therefore, you can be assured that its solution is as much there and with you as the problem is. [...]

[...] Your greater being also possesses its own originality, yet there will be what you may think of as a family resemblance, and so overall you and your other self often choose the same kinds of challenges, if in dissimilar ways.

[...] I have, in regard to the latter, solved several challenges with painting—from the time we moved to Pinnacle Road—and now feel that I have a clear road there as to how I want to do things into the indefinite future, etc. [...]

[...] It is a creative period, far more significant than you realize, and you have set a challenge for yourselves because you know that you can break through the barriers of old beliefs.

This on several levels is significant, for you have the first strong challenge to habitual body beliefs, with a resulting initial breakup of old suggestion, given constantly to the body. [...]

[...] He explains in some detail how we live more than one life at a time, how “the greater self ‘divides’ itself, materializing in flesh as several individuals, with entirely different backgrounds — yet each embarked upon the same kind of creative challenge.” [...]

[...] As a youngster, you—and also Ruburt—challenged many of “the world’s” beliefs, and refused to accept them as a part of your personalized world views.

[...] That formality, oddly enough, will encourage Ruburt’s spontaneity, for he would find it a challenge to work with the house and yet in counterpoint.

[...] It represents a kind of challenge you have not thus far accepted. [...]

(For the session, we both hoped Seth would at least comment on the Stuart incidents, and in relation to her own challenges.)

[...] The creative challenge is there for him, and it is one he chose himself.

[...] We thought his comment about the sinful self might have come about through my reading to her earlier today my question to him of last October about what part the sinful self might be playing in her challenges.

[...] Both of us have been making pronounced efforts—although that’s not the right word for it—to trust that our challenges will be taken care of in Framework 2. I think I’ve had some good success there.

Each personality takes on certain challenges and deals with them in its own order. [...]

“The growth of ego consciousness by itself set up both challenges and limitations. [...]

[...] The quality of their lives is such that their abilities are challenged. [...]

[...] “That was probably because he didn’t want me to think he was challenging me,” Jane said. [...]

[...] For I feel now, in connection with the two “new” poems, the same profound sensations I had concerning Jane’s challenges when I wrote in Note 6: “Perhaps it was her poetic art of expression that helped me identify so strongly with her emotions, but I suddenly felt that even I had never really understood the myriad depths of her challenges and her reactions to them.” [...]