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[...] If you believe that youth is the ideal and struggle for it while simultaneously believing that old age must involve infirmities, then you cause an unnecessary dilemma, and hasten aging according to the negative aspects of your mind.

It is the world in which you now will live, and if you will not face their problems, if you cannot solve their dilemma, it will be not their fault but your own. [...]

[...] These dilemmas condition consciousness to believe its position to be even more precarious than it was before, and its sense of power and effectiveness is greatly reduced.

This applies to any kind of dilemma.

(9:20.) Ruburt, far more than other people, is involved in a life that utilizes conscious and unconscious activity, so that any dilemmas in that regard are certainly physically reflected. [...]

When Ruburt does not go out, however, it is never a simple issue of the body’s condition at any given time, but a moral dilemma in which, basically you see, you are misinterpreting events. [...]

The creative dilemma, the creative distortion, is of course itself an action that is resolved in further acts. [...]

[...] But I felt somewhat in a dilemma, since father also wears regular hats.)

[...] Augustus is in a dilemma, for he still holds intact the beliefs in his own powerlessness, and the contradictory beliefs of omnipotence are not now being expressed through Augustus Two. [...]

[...] His dilemma makes him important.

[...] I know it’s easy to feel bad about what appears to be someone else’s dilemma, but at the same time they live in the reality they’ve created and have their own kinds of protection. [...]

[...] The dream book manuscript, again, represented that dilemma. [...]

[...] He has usually buried spontaneous desires to do other things, particularly in your apartment, so there were frequent dilemmas, finding of course physical expression in symptoms. [...]

[...] Or you will see an item of that nature in the newspaper, or you will hear a story, told directly or indirectly about the same kind of dilemma. [...]

Whenever you are trying to rid yourself of a dilemma, make sure that you do not concentrate your attention upon it instead. [...]

[...] Had you stopped painting, you see, the dilemma in a way would not have existed. [...]

(Which pointed up our dilemma, I thought at the time. [...]

[...] No one else has viewed your particular dilemma through your eyes, yet others have been in similar situations, solved the challenges involved, and gone on to greater creativity and fulfillment. [...]

“It is one thing to say that the dilemma is unfortunate, but it is also true to say that the dilemma existed because of a breakthrough that gave him what amounted to a new life at the time….”

As he progressed with the series, Seth delved into Jane’s sinful self from a number of viewpoints: its birth and growth during her intense relationship with the Roman Catholic Church throughout her early years; the development of her very stubborn core beliefs; her creative dilemmas after she left the church in her late teens; the conflicts she began to experience after our marriage, involving on the one hand her sinful self and the religion she thought she’d left behind, and on the other hand science, art, writing, and the unconventional direction she discovered her natural, mystical abilities were taking via the Seth material; her growing fears of leading others astray; and the very real necessity for her—and for each individual—to achieve value fulfillment.

[...] Its only methods of dealing with such guilt involve standard psychoanalytic counseling—which itself deepens the dilemma, for counseling itself is based upon the idea that the inner self is a reservoir of savage impulses. [...]

“In that regard, you have what amounts to a creative dilemma.

To some degree we will touch upon those dilemmas in this book. [...]

[...] Seth himself had referred to her dilemma in the excerpt I’ve taken from the private session for January 26, 1981, very well.