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[...] You give constructions their appearance of continuity by continually creating them in line with your expectations, based upon among other things, previous constructions in the apparent past; and these expectations are the result of psychic communication between yourselves and others, particularly from parents, who give the child his first conceptions of the environment which, indeed, his parents have created.

[...] I have mentioned that expectation has much to do with individual constructions, and indeed this cannot be stressed too strongly.

In all cases constructions will follow the line of expectation, and often a vicious circle is initiated, where the environment created by an individual will then reinforce the very distortive conceptions that caused it to begin with.

[...] Indeed, you have both yourselves begun to operate much more efficiently in these important areas of expectation and construction.

[...] If you are convinced that your world is not safe then it seems sensible to protect yourself in questionable areas by expecting the worst so that you will be prepared. Unfortunately such expectations, of course, are disadvantageous. [...] Yet in that innocent remark lies the assumption that the cold can be expected rather than, say, a normal state of health.

There are all kinds of like suggestions, all meant as preventive measures, but based upon the idea that ill fortune can be most likely expected, and means must be taken to avoid it. [...]

I expect then a concentrated effort to spontaneously accept impulses toward action and immediate performance of the act. [...]

[...] Tell him tomorrow morning I expect him to begin writing his book. [...]

[...] But I expect five pages tomorrow.

[...] When I speak to you, I shall therefore expect on your part some effort to understand me if necessary. I shall expect more of you, and you must expect more of yourselves. [...]

[...] Then why do you expect other truths to be given to you? [...]

[...] I shall cease speaking to you as kindergarten children, and I shall expect that you will cease thinking like kindergarten children. [...]

[...] But you do not expect music to come from a camera. You do not expect a phonograph to take pictures, yet while you are listening to music from a phonograph this does not mean, even to you, that cameras do not record sight. You are expecting the outer senses to do something they are not capable of doing, of receiving or performing in a way that is alien to them. You are expecting them to act like a camera that can pick up music, and because the camera does not pick up music you are saying that music does not exist.

[...] Manipulation of camouflage patterns is to be expected, and furthermore is desirable. [...]

[...] But to insist upon translating this data into channels that can first be picked up by the outer senses, and then expecting undistorted strong data, is asking the impossible.

[...] To insist upon evidence in terms of outside sensual data is as ridiculous a notion as to expect a camera to play music.

Men have always grown old—and women too (amused)—but they often displayed far greater wisdom, health, and even vitality in old age because it was expected of them, and because they expected it of themselves. [...]

[...] Again, remember what I have told you when people expect a hearty longevity, then that is their reality—and do not forget then that your difficulties lie also in the realm of cultural beliefs. [...]

[...] I do want to emphasize that in many, many civilizations men were expected to improve almost all of their abilities with age, as per for example Bill Gallagher’s story of the old Indian who taught the young boys how to track animals in the forest. [...]

[...] Desire, wish and expectation rule all actions, and are the basis for all realities.

Within All That Is, then, the wish, desire and expectation of creativity existed before all other actuality. [...]

[...] The strength and vitality of these desires and expectations, in your terms then, became so insupportable that All That Is was driven to find the means to produce them.

A turnabout of some kind can be expected, in your mundane affairs. [...]

[...] His own overexpectations, or rather unrealistic expectations concerning his book, and the mistakes he felt were connected with it, sensitized him, until he felt that outside money would be a permanent part of his life.

[...] He felt guilty at turning down the yoga classes, yet he felt that to match your performance he was expected to work five afternoons. [...]

[...] There is a difference between excellent expectations thoroughly believed in which are beneficial, and superficially adopted overexpectations that are not basically believed.

Ruburt should expect to do well, and he shall. [...]

[...] You were pleased when Ruburt walked across the floor with his plunger, without the table, yet both of you expected him to walk down steps, small as they are, and walk around the car in the garage without his table, or there is something wrong. You expect different kinds of behavior in the house and in the garage.

Not only then do you have a manufactured crisis of one minor variety or another, but Ruburt is expected or expects his body to execute the steps, walk without the table or any other aid, and behave entirely differently, and of course better, than he does inside the house. [...]

[...] He was beginning to try to walk without the table for small periods—commendable in the house, but expected, no matter what, in the garage.

(My personal problems developed in force when I began to be overly concerned with my creative “work” as work, as it applied to the world, as it would be received and interpreted; when I tried to compare its reception to other officially accepted activities—that people understood—when I tried to look at my “work” through their eyes, and when I began to expect the kind of honor and approbation given to others—who conformed.

[...] Now this can be expected to some degree for a noncreative career; but it can damage creative activity; the need for creativity naturally is... [...]

You are making enough advances so that I expect some more. [...]

[...] I expect your adventures to begin this evening. [...]

I bid you all a fond good evening, and I expect to see you floating like little ghosties out of your bodies this evening. [...]

[...] You are obsessed with sexual behavior when you put tight, unrealistic bans upon its expression, and also when you set up just as unrealistic standards of active performance to which the normal person is expected to comply.

[...] Men brought up to be ashamed of the “feminine” sides of their nature cannot be expected to love women. [...]

Women taught to be frightened of the “masculine” sides of their nature cannot be expected to love men, either, and the same kind of behavior results.

[...] You form your physical reality through suggestion and expectation. You experience what you expect to experience at a subconscious and a conscious level. [...]

[...] And we expect you to maintain it. We expect you(CW) to maintain it ... [...]

And when I do ask the questions, and I shall ask them, I shall expect some ready answers. [...]

It seemed that this would be thrust upon him, however—that it was expected, and that indeed furthermore he should expect such performance from himself. [...]

[...] To enjoy seeing people is a different thing than expecting yourself to be a public personality, however. [...]

[...] To go on public television, join the workshops and so forth would not be Ruburt’s way, even while he felt that such a course was expected of him. [...]

[...] The suggestion is beautifully implied: you do exercises because you expect to succeed at them.

[...] Expectation now (underlined) is important here, and the fact that he got into the habit of denying impulses toward motion—by blocking, often, not the impulse so much as the motor response.

[...] But I will tell you that expectation is highly pertinent here on both of your parts.... [...]

[...] You may contemplate the end of the world instead, but in either case you are propelled by a sense of personal frustration, and perhaps by some degree of vengeance, seeing in your mind the destruction of a world that fell so far beneath your idealized expectations.

[...] If you want to change your world, you must first change your thoughts, expectations, and beliefs. [...]

[...] Your thoughts, feelings and expectations are like the living brush strokes with which you paint your corner of life’s landscape. [...]

There is no event upon the face of the earth in which each of you has not played some part, however minute, because of the nature of your thoughts, beliefs, and expectations.

[...] I thought Seth could comment today, but I expected no detailed response there either at this time. [...]

[...] At once we agreed that Seth had said much more about the fund idea than we’d expected at this time. [...]

(We haven’t heard from Pete this week, by the way, but Jane said she hadn’t expected to—that nothing will transpire business-wise until the new year is in.)

[...] I for one have long reached the point where I expect little else from Prentice-Hall except shoddy work, and I think that by now Jane more or less agrees. [...]

[...] They did what they thought they were supposed to do, but do not feel nearly the sense of accomplishment or pleasure with their lives that they once expected. [...]

[...] He tried to rouse William’s intellect and intuitions, but to his utter amazement he found both more dormant than he had expected. [...]

They did what they believed was expected of them. [...]

[...] Ruburt expected her husband, the man, to show spontaneous love and affection, and to supply emotional richness, which she was willing to nurture—but she expected the artist—who happened to be her husband—to protect himself from any emotional response that might interfere with his work.

[...] Playfully now, for the relaxation and joy of doing it, let yourselves imagine the things you want to do, as a creative game, because of the intrinsic pleasure involved but without Ruburt expecting, or rather demanding, instantaneous results.

I expect that you will see to it that Ruburt follows the suggestions given this evening. [...]

[...] I expect a new state of affairs, with these suggestions started immediately.