“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I named several beliefs that could be operating, ranging all the way from a fear of failure to our not wanting to see the symptoms go. [...]

[...] You must not focus your attention upon past failures. [...]

[...] “I feel that I am a poor mother,” or, “I feel that I am a failure.” [...] You may be most successful in reaching your goals while still thinking yourself a failure.

[...] See page 230, containing an account of my failure to remember projecting the last time Seth offered to help me.)

(However, my efforts to project, or rather the remembrance of projecting, were again dismal failures. [...]

[...] Most of all, however, he has identified of late with what he thinks of as his failure.

(The next day Jane called the electric company to see if there had been a power failure, even momentarily, in our neighborhood. [...]

[...] The attempt is obviously doomed to failure, since the necessary actual perspectives in which the landscape exists are denied to him as working materials. [...]

Mankind is to some intimate degree acquainted with this attempt of action to recreate itself, for human reproduction is here a case in point, each individual attempting to create a replica, the attempt doomed to failure, but the attempt itself resulting in a distortion of the original action; that is, a distortion of the original individuals, and in the creation of a new reality, this process then being repeated indefinitely.

[...] Symptoms of the left hand or left portions of the body represent difficulties from subconscious levels, and both represent failures between the conscious and subconscious portions of the self.

The transformation brought about subconsciously in answer to an inner need and to offset a growing feeling of panic and failure.

[...] It is the failure of the ego to listen to the inner voice of the subconscious that causes many difficulties. [...]

Since it is itself action, such an attempt is basically doomed to failure. [...]

[...] Now it meant failure.

He has been afraid to try anything new for fear of failure. [...]

[...] I’d anticipated the failure to some extent: With mere oil paint I just couldn’t match the iridescence of that dream wall of light and color. [...] I could always make another attempt tomorrow morning, of course, but for some reason I was rebelling at admitting my failure today.

[...] Your own ideas of values can help you achieve good health or bring about disease, can bring into your experience success or failure, happiness or sadness. [...] You will have definite ideas about what success or failure means, or what good or evil is.

Two: I will approve of and rejoice in my accomplishments, and I will be as vigorous in listing these—as rigorous in remembering them—as I have ever been in remembering and enumerating my failures or lacks of accomplishment. [...]

Illness result of partial failure to materialize spirit faithfully. [...]

[...] There are also great failures — but these are failures only in comparison with the glittering inner knowledge of the imagination that holds for you those ideals against which you judge your acts.

[...] Otherwise it seems to him as if he is a physical failure in that regard. [...]

[...] This we believe involves Peggy’s failure to appear at the two previous sessions, 242 and 243, to take photographs of Jane. [...]

[...] See the notes again on pages 30, and 50, concerning Peggy’s failure to appear as scheduled to photograph Jane during the 242nd session. [...]

If you think that it is your personal responsibility alone to change the world, then you are always bound to feel a burdening sense of failure. [...]

[...] As to her own mother, Marie, I said it was perfectly okay to admit that she didn’t succeed there, or chose to withdraw or admit failure. [...]

[...] This complicated enormously all of our efforts to help her move about the house as she used to in her office chair, which is on rollers, and nearly signaled the failure of our efforts to live by ourselves. [...]