“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] These, denied the core beliefs that gave them birth, would naturally begin to weaken but could linger for some time, generally speaking, unless they were recognized as beliefs.

[...] You are each concentrating on negatives when you ignore the freedom that does exist, and denying yourselves pleasures that could help enlarge that freedom. [...]

[...] You allow yourselves little freedom in which to operate by ignoring, belittling, and denying the freedoms that are available.

[...] When he attempts to deny or block what he considers unsuitable moods, outlets are denied them and the next natural cycle, the rising up of high spirits, does not come.

[...] It drove Ruburt at times to try to deny womanhood, to assure you and herself that her body would not betray you both. [...]

[...] Therefore you may sense in Ruburt at times confusing inclinations toward high independence in one area, and a self-denying dependence in another. [...]

[...] You tell him to use suggestion, which is a mental tool, and evade the physical contact which to him is proof of the physical divorce, and a reassertion of the mental being valued and the physical denied.

In a strange fashion the symptoms also served to stress what he felt you were both trying to deny—his femininity, in that he felt at a very unconscious level that they made him helpless and in need of someone to lean upon—a mute call for support to you, and at that level he was outraged that instead of giving him your hand you would offer mental suggestions.

(10:19.) The myths upon which you base your lives so program your existence that often you verbally deny what you inwardly know. [...] They will ignore or deny the inner feelings that alone would give the event any meaning in their lives. [...]

[...] The religions do insist that man has a purpose, yet in their own confusion they often speak as if that purpose must be achieved by denying the physical body in which man has his life’s existence, or by “rising above” “gross, blunted,” earthly characteristics. [...]

[...] Many therefore “fall prey” to epidemics of one kind or another because they want to, though they might deny this quite vigorously.

[...] You become so worried for it that you can overprotect it, and deny it its natural resiliency and power. [...]

[...] You deny yourselves, say, guests when you feel like having them, because you have already done chores that did not particularly need to be done, because you thought you should, when you felt like working.

[...] The body is denied the frequent rests it requires. [...]

If the members of such a rigid group believe that youth is innocent, then they will deny sexual experience as having any place in childhood, and alter their own memories to fit their beliefs.

[...] You deny yourself many of these advantages however through the artificial alienation that you have set up by your present wake-sleep patterns, to which, again, your ideas of good and evil are intimately connected.

A person with several existences stressing intellectual achievement might purposely then decide upon a life in which mental abilities are beyond him, and the emotions allowed a full play that he had denied them “earlier.”

[...] On the other hand the personality involved may see this as a most rewarding and expansive experience, in which the emotions are allowed freedoms ordinarily denied. [...]

(Very emphatically at 10:03:) On an individual basis a grave illness, for instance, will represent the adoption of a particular highly intense focus in which a given aspect of usual experience is deliberately cut out or denied; the context of life itself must then be magnified along other lines. [...]

Now you can open yourselves to this reality or you can deny it. [...] But this in no way denies the validity of your entire personality. [...]

(To Florence.) And those connections that you know very well, you deny. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, then, and without denying the great validity of your experience, events as you know them are but fragments of other happenings in which you are also intimately involved. [...]

Again, I do not mean to deny the validity of that experience, but to point out its specialized nature. [...]

[...] The information is not practical in your terms, because it denies your direct experience. [...]

[...] He just denied expression to his bright self. [...]

[...] Here particular emotions are dissociated, denied. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s spontaneous nature is tolerant, sunny, quite natively good in his terms—qualities that he finds so difficult when he tries to manufacture them while denying spontaneity. [...]

At the same time the animal was denied the usual constructive psychic atmosphere in which it usually is allowed to operate. [...]

[...] It only turns into violence, and into a fear of violence, when it is so meticulously denied.

[...] But this expression was denied to the children, and you longed to retaliate. [...]

Ruburt denied the cat its usual psychic reinforcement also, you see. [...]

[...] To believe in your own weakness is to deny yourself the power of action. [...]

He was a study, a living example, of the effects of conflicting unexamined beliefs, a fierce and yet agonized personification of what can happen when an individual allows his conscious mind to deny its responsibilities — i.e., when an individual becomes afraid of his own consciousness.

In closed mental environments such expression is vigorously denied, and the very foundations of selfhood are attacked. [...]

In such situations you are taught that the self you have is not only flawed, but a facade—a fake self that cannot be trusted, and whose expression must be largely denied. [...]

[...] Expression becomes meaningless under such conditions, not trusting the structure of the self, then the self’s expression is denied. [...]

[...] With the large freedom provided by the conscious mind, however, man could stray from that great inner joy of being, forget it, disbelieve in it, or use his free will to deny its existence.

[...] When he violated, it fell back into cellular awareness, as with the animals, but he felt consciously cut off from it and denied.

[...] You cannot confine a personality that you “were” to a particular century that is finished and deny it other fulfillments, for even now it exists and has fresh experience. [...]

[...] You have denied many impulses, or programmed others so that they are allowed expression in only certain forms of action. [...]

[...] The man just mentioned denies his personal impulses often. [...]

[...] When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being. [...]

(9:34.) If you habitually deny the expression of any emotions, to that degree you become alienated not only from your body but from your conscious ideas. [...]

[...] You are denying the body’s corporeal existence and its focus in the time of the seasons, and cheating yourself of those natural biological, psychic, and mental motions that are meant to take you past themselves.

I am not suggesting for example that five sessions, or four, be held in a week at this time; only that sincere requests should not be automatically denied because they do not fall within the scheduled time. [...]

I abhor fanaticism of any type yet I do not feel, myself, that a sincere request under ordinary circumstances should be denied. [...]

[...] It is also very strong, and the personality fears its own strength simply because normal aggressiveness has been denied outlet; and building up a practice of quietly but firmly expressing his own viewpoints will also help to release the inner pressure.

You can indeed change them, but do not deny the part of you that wanted to wring the other man’s neck. [...]

In the meantime, his muscles have contracted ten times because they could not be put into activity, as the thought behind them was denied. [...]

[...] Again, it behooves you to deny your true feelings in order to be spiritual — which is not true spirituality — and you say again, “God bless you, may you go in peace.”

[...] It attempts to deny the inner emotions because the changeability of these emotions would seem to threaten its own permanence. [...] Therefore any seemingly small incident will tend to bring forth the explosion of these emotions quite against the ego’s inclination, precisely because the ego denies them so vehemently.

[...] The ego attempts, this ego attempts, to stand aside and to deny the inevitability of change. [...]

[...] And this sham allows the ego to continue denying those inner emotions in an effort to maintain its permanence.

[...] And when you look at me and want Seth to come through, and when you don’t want to know what Jane says but you want to know what Seth says, you are denying your own reality. You are denying your own inner voice. [...]

[...] Get on good terms with it and do not deny it. [...]