“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

But behind that there is far more; for if you do not believe in your own worth as a human being, then you will simply get other symptoms that have to be removed in the same manner, using other “past” events as the excuse for the condition — if you are lucky. [...]

[...] You can eat a great deal for a while and only gain a few pounds, or find all kinds of excuses for not eating. [...]

[...] Each of you cop out in that regard, using time as an excuse. [...] I am not excusing the belief.

[...] He needed a strong excuse therefore in order to ask you to do anything. One excuse was that he could not do it himself.

[...] He used the physical ailments as excuses to himself. [...]

The room in his dream had a circular ceiling which represented, if he will excuse me, the womb of his mother, from which the adult must finally symbolically escape.

[...] If you will excuse the comment, Ruburt is either all self-discipline or all intuition.

[...] Flu epidemics become social excuses for much needed rest, therefore, and serve as face-saving devices so that the individuals can hide from themselves their inner difficulties. [...] The [epidemics] serve as accepted states of illness, in which people are given an excuse for the rest or quiet self-examination they desperately need but do not feel entitled to otherwise.

[...] No, I do not want to do that,” instead of providing yourself with a blanket excuse, as Ruburt has done. [...]

[...] You are making excuses. [...]

[...] It was simply an excuse in a way, but on the other hand Ruburt recognized the difficulties during that time. [...]

[...] While you were at Artistic you both used that as an excuse. [...]

Joe has recovered from a serious heart condition, of course — and if you will excuse me, that was the heart of the matter. [...]

[...] You have used this as an excuse.

[...] Before this brings to your mind hilarious images of tipsy spirits, if you will excuse the pun, I will leave you to the rest and quiet in which I found you, perhaps. [...]

[...] To protect himself from this, he developed the symptoms before leaving, thus giving himself a legitimate excuse to ask for, or accept, a ride.

[...] So not paying the taxes allows him to give the boot to authority, while it still seems he has a good excuse.

[...] Ignorance is no excuse, for I have told him. [...]

[...] With her, emotionalism was often an excuse.

[...] To an extent they have served as their own stabilizers, giving you both excuses and protections from events of perhaps an intrusive fashion, such as the interviews or guests, or even strangers at the door. [...]

[...] You must above all things avoid superficialities, for you use them as excuses. [...]

[...] You each had an excuse ready-made. [...]

[...] There was then a built-in excuse also.