“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You cannot collect data—and you collect it, both of you—that points out man’s stupidities, and then demand that you personally go against what you think of as man’s ingrained idiocy. [...]

What we have here is a deep struggle between various needs, a struggle between various portions of the personality, each with their own demands and interpretations of reality.

There is one part of the self, confident, assured of its abilities, and somewhat demanding, rather powerful. [...]

[...] To have the disease, or punishment, and still not have it, to satisfy both demands.

[...] The other portion rises up in arms and forces him to demand success.

There is on the one hand a fear of demanding, and on the other hand a tendency to demand too much in personal relationships in which the other sex is involved. [...]

[...] The rigidity becomes too demanding and the impulse toward freedom is fought vigorously.

[...] They did not demand the same amount of nourishment. [...] To an extent the tissues involved became smaller, dry, less elastic, less demanding of nourishment. [...]

[...] As they were, they demanded more and more nourishment.

[...] You are seeking from future probabilities unpleasant—or perhaps the most unpleasant—circumstances, and actually demanding that the body handle that stimuli now (all intently).

[...] You have, in the dream’s meaning, your mother given to explosive bursts of emotional expression, who it seems makes emotional demands. In the dream’s meaning, she chased after him, and in that context you felt one portion of yourself making demands upon another portion that resented the emotional involvement, the emotional outbursts that that portion naturally expressed. [...]

(In my letters I intend to demand that we see the version in manuscript to be published by any foreign press, or the galleys, or whatever. [...]

[...] By plunging into our ocean of value climate you can dive beneath your camouflage system and look up to see it, relatively foundationless, floating above you, moved, formed, and directed by the shifting illusions caused by the wind of will, and the force of subconscious concentration and demand.

[...] You find it much easier to relate to the one than to the other because to relate to the other you think would demand too much of you intellectually. [...]

You see, you come with demands. [...]

[...] When we let our Pandoras out of the box, you sat very placidly over here thinking, ‘I’m going to keep mine in.’ We gave and you demanded.”)

It is only when a schism develops that the overly conscientious self becomes quite unreasoning in its demands and expectations. [...]

[...] The overly conscientious self demanded that this was not work enough. [...]

[...] The new self unit must be free and not hampered by the demands that could otherwise be put upon it. [...]

[...] The extremities are now better nourished—working muscles will demand this nourishment. [...]

[...] You must demand more of yourself than you ever have before. [...] That sort of material serves a need, but our material demands that you intellectually and intuitively expand.”

Ruburt should not demand more of them, for it is necessary that both of you do give in this manner, and for this particular kind of giving you cannot demand thanks. [...]

[...] Such a procedure would have satisfied a strong demand of your nature, but it would not have isolated you to an unhealthy degree, since it was close by.

On the one hand you are pleased because Ruburt does not demand a large amount of physical goods, in usual terms. [...]

[...] For when you are envious you become angry at yourself, but also angry at him, for you cannot help thinking that if he worked harder, if he did something, of what you are not certain, then he would make more money, and you could still have what envy demands. [...]

It demands little in physical terms. However he thrives and literally demands a luxurious sense of inner love, an abundance of warmth and affection. [...]

Mental activity does demand more energy of one kind than does physical activity, and the reason here is a rather strange one, in that in many respects creative work demands the extra energy used in a sort of repression. [...]

[...] The work you are doing is valuable and can be, but it demands a high integrity of a kind you are only beginning to learn. By integrity, I am speaking of honesty with self that demands you to go beyond the self-deceptions that you accept as your self at any given point. [...]

[...] There were indeed goods for all—yet those goods seemed to produce little peace of mind, and the workers, through strikes and so forth, demanded more and more a cut of the pie—as if to assuage some inner hunger.

[...] More circulation is demanded. [...]

To do that, I have to drop those old feelings of responsibility as a primary focus (to get the ideas out quickly so they can help people, etc.) because those feelings strain the Seth-book framework particularly when I demand that in each book Seth answers all questions and so forth. [...]

[...] which immediately wanted approval for my books—not that I shouldn’t want approval per se but that I began to demand that my art provide all my needs; to financially support me, to give me honor among my fellows, a sense of belonging, etc. [...]