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And when the “little” self says, “I am afraid and I will make excuses,” you must imagine the larger self saying, “I am strong. I will not allow the smaller self to make excuses. There is no need for them.” You must identify with the larger portion of your self.

It does indeed if you do not use the remark as an excuse. It means that you must give up some of your precious misconceptions. The misconceptions are these, and they apply to each of you: 1). “I am a limited self.” For no matter what I tell you, you still seem to fear as if you are limited and as if your self is something within your head bounded by your bony skull, and enclosed within your physical body. This is an erroneous conception. 2). The belief that you are limited in energy and that you are inferior, and that you are helpless. As long as you believe you are helpless, you are helpless. As long as you believe you are limited, you are limited. These misconceptions are what inhibit you from using the energy that is your own.

([Brad:] “Am I using this in any way as an excuse for my failures? “)

Now. My prescription immediately is to think in terms of motion. Do not say again, “I think in terms of immobility.” Instead, immediately change your imaginative image of yourself. You must and you can do this. You must first change your image in your imagination and act upon it immediately. You must refuse, and absolutely refuse, to accept any more excuses from this superficial portion of yourself. You must imagine that within yourself—for this is the truth—there is a stronger and more powerful self, a larger self.

[...] Now, when you truly understand this, you can change it for the better, but until you really understand the truth behind my words, then you will look for excuses. Now you may partially be taken in by the excuses—Ruburt may be partially taken in by the excuses, but I am not taken in by the excuses! And an inner part of your own consciousness is not taken in by the excuses either! [...]

If you do not want to do these things, and you are sure you do not, then admit it, without relying upon the symptoms as a handy excuse.

That is a habit, one of the areas where the symptoms can be counted upon for an excuse. [...]

[...] But you must understand that in your mind—now, you, Joseph—have thought of the symptoms as the reason why the answer (in the negative) would be given—and that is using the symptoms as an excuse. [...]

[...] This will give her an excuse shortly to move. [...]

[...] The high cost of keeping the two apartments will be used by both of them as an issue and excuse. [...]

[...] Many of the men involved were imagining how happy they would be in a medical building, and subconsciously hoping for an excuse to move into one. [...]

[...] When you say nothing he uses this as an excuse, thinking, “Rob has said nothing, therefore he must agree with what I am doing.”

One more point: if you will excuse the pun. [...]

[...] You both used his condition as an excuse for not doing certain things because you believed an excuse was necessary.

[...] I begin to mimic him then realize that she is the one who is doing this, and talking about Untermeyer, not I, and I become confused and embarrassed and excuse myself for butting in.

He feels that you have not tried to make a success of your art, but have used excuses while blaming him for using excuses; that he tries desperately to sell his books, while you will not lift a finger to sell your paintings; that if he waited until he did his best work, he would never have sold a thing.

[...] You can no longer use it as an excuse any more than Ruburt can use his symptoms as an excuse any more. [...]

[...] Keeps me from wasting my time with housework; think it’s degrading for R. as a male to do chores so much so the symptoms give us both an excuse; also gives him an excuse for not knowing for sure what he wants to do, paint or whatever, he can blame it on lack of concentration because of me.

[...] One thing I can give him; buy time for him to do whatever he wants, be free of family and money problems, if he worries about me he isn’t going to feel responsible to get a job and my symptoms give him an excuse not to socially (old ideas) and the symptoms cut down on my flamboyance which has class to express itself in. [...]

[...] Other variations might seem amazingly quick — the perceptions following each other so swiftly that they would indeed escape your (underlined) perception entirely; yet in the wondrous marvels of inner nature, all of these rhythms are connected one to the others, and in a matter of speaking — excuse the pun (amused) — they each balance each other.

[...] Many people still continue to follow the very same dogmas that seemed to have proven themselves wrong; the personage comes up with a newer excuse, or a newer date, and things go on as before.

[...] [As I type this Wednesday morning, the finger looks even better.] We talked about using Dr. K’s visit tomorrow, and the improvement in the finger, as excuses to “squirm out of” Friday’s appointment with Dr. Sobel. [...]

[...] Most of all, there would be far — if you will excuse me — better communication between the subjective layers of the self, an increased sense of security, and, particularly with children, an earlier kindling of creative abilities.

[...] She thinks management is using the impending construction program as an excuse to move people. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s condition is (underlined) no excuse for either of you. [...]

[...] But to hide from himself the dire imagined sequence he must have an excuse.

[...] If he does not get an idea tomorrow he has the excuse, anticipated, of being ill, and this also serves as a punishment. [...]

[...] Not being fully mobile has given him a built-in excuse to avoid distractions. [...]

I think it was that late morning that Margaret, our neighbor, dropped in late morning to tell us she and Joe would be heading for their cottage, but somewhere I got it in my head that it would be one of those summer weekends when people prowled around—found excuses to go to malls or visit strange towns or just wander the streets or through public buildings—or visit here, if there were any fans in the nearby locality. [...]