“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] His being demanded expression through the use of its abilities, and despite his need to be accepted by others he began to exaggerate the threat of their disapproval into scorn. [...]

[...] He has the feeling, I will not say he has been given the feeling, but he has it, that his father demands a strong emotional attachment on his part and deep loyalty, and he relates strongly to him for this reason, but when the father is absent then he experiences hesitation. [...]

The methods that I will outline demand concentration and effort. [...]

[...] The person involved must then demand more of himself…

[...] Indeed, her delivery had often been intense, and quite demanding as far as my writing speed went.)

[...] He has of course improved, and in general strength, since returning home—but in the hospital nothing was demanded or expected of him. [...]

(9:29.) It made good sense enough to take the artificial thyroid that my body obviously was demanding. [...]

[...] If your conscious mind is to be a foreman he must be one who is easy to get along with, and not so authoritative that he is yelling demands all the time. [...]

[...] Ruburt felt you were a perfectionist, both in your work and in what you demanded of others and yourself.

[...] Add to that list the belief that the great artist or writer concentrates upon his or her art so intensely and single-mindedly, and single-heartedly, that the focus itself forces the artist or poet to use those abilities to their utmost, or that great genius demands one-sided vision and a denial of the world. [...]

As far as the sessions were concerned, he felt for some time that you demanded them, and on the other hand resented his part in them. [...]

(Long pause at 9:48.) As he became better known, so it seemed greater demands were put upon him. [...]

(9:00.) When he demands too much of himself, there is nowhere along the line where he can securely rest, pat himself on the back, and say “You have done a good job,” because what he has performed seems so inadequate in the light of what he feels is expected. [...]

[...] However if he did not have such an outlet, and if you did not have such an outlet in your own work, then indeed we would have had much more trouble, because this layer of personal subconscious would then be not merely a receptive channel but one that also radioed its own noisy and demanding stations.

If this sounds difficult then indeed it is, because I will not deal in platitudes, and the exercise of the inner abilities demand, as a bulwark, the sometimes difficult achievement of an ego that can adapt itself in the outer environment, and so hold its own while the inner self is then freed to go its way.

[...] Its very permanency is determined by its nature, and its nature demands constant change.

[...] Demand more of yourself- not less. [...]

[...] Autistic children, in many cases, now, are those who have picked up the idea that the world is so unsafe that it is better not to communicate with it at all, as long as their demands or needs are being met. [...]

[...] Meaning, of course, that many of those invisible leaves would represent the missing, physical, intermediate forms demanded by evolutionary theory.

[...] My own fears left me seeing visions of a drastically changed relationship between us, and a different life-style, one probably considerably less private if she needed nursing care, say, “What are you trying to do to me?” I demanded, and so forth. [...]