“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He envied you what he thought of as your coolness, and in trying to emulate it at times he only used it as an excuse to continue this old pattern of withdrawal.

[...] You have not allowed yourselves the leeway, or the excuses either, that people do with families or a large number of interests. [...]

The dreamer, whatever his age, job or family background, is considered most suspect, for it seems that he doesn’t even have a craft to excuse his moral laziness. [...]

It is true that basically there is no death, but this cannot be used as an excuse within your sense-system. [...]

[...] You are using your intellect instead as an excuse. [...]

[...] You will enjoy reading about them, but you will find all kinds of excuses that prevent you from trying them yourself. [...]

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

[...] When Frank asks Ruburt frankly—if you will excuse the pun (amused)—“Are you working? [...]

[...] You should get a charge out of this material, if you will excuse a poor pun.

[...] I suppose we might use the post office’s impending rate increases as an excuse to save on postage, and either cut way down on, or eliminate, answering the mail, if this will help. [...]

(I remarked to Jane today that if I’d known what I think I know now, today, a month ago we could have withdrawn Mass Events from Prentice-Hall, using the disclaimer dispute as an excuse, and delayed its publication for as long as we wanted to. [...]

([Gert:] “Not only that, he didn’t make himself part of the group, if you’ll excuse me, and I hope we are not projecting again. [...]

[...] They give our friend the excuse physically for a retreat from the world. [...]

[...] And if you will excuse me, in so doing you are taking on the guise of the devil. [...]

[...] His emotions were not creatively—if you’ll excuse the term—destructive. [...]

[...] He has been in past existences concerned with matters that lie beneath matter, if you will excuse a pun; and for this reason the interest has grown. [...]

[...] He felt he needed excuses, or in his own eyes and the eyes of others he would seem to be a coward. [...]

Rob had to go to the bank, so he excused himself and left just after the mailman arrived. [...]

I have heard many excuses in my life... [...]

Those portions of my entity that have not had physical experience, however, do not operate within that time system, at any time(smile), if you will excuse the pun. [...]

You set yourself against all of this, against the gist of life and joy and vitality, and turn your back upon it with the paltry excuse: “If one person does not love me in a male-female relationship in this life, then I threaten to destroy myself, and shatter the form that holds the spirit, and shatter the form like a glass thrown upon the floor, like a child in a tantrum.” [...]