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...yourself...to speak gently.

([Mary:] “Gently.”)

Learn to speak easily and gently. [...]

[...] (Pause.) For another thing, this allows a breakup of certain mental and physical habits—a gentle shock to the mental and physical systems that allows for beneficial change. [...]

[...] She followed these motions with some gentle head and shoulder movements. [...]

[...] Countering gentle, imaginative exercises would help here, not involving getting up per se, however; to see himself dressed and in excellent spirits, serving your breakfast for example—not necessarily the following morning, but simply to entertain the pleasant image.

(10:07.) I have been very gentle in my treatment of your mores and institutions — for I do not want you to be against your world, but for a more fulfilling one. [...]

Now, I have treated you all very gently in class, and I have used simple language, and I have explained things easily and coddled you, Now, 1 want you to study the material that you have. [...]

If, on the other hand, thinking of him under the same conditions, you stop yourself and say gently to yourself: he will begin to feel better now—or his drinking is temporary—and there is indeed hope here, then you have given him aid, for the suggestions will at least represent some small telepathic ammunition to fight off the war of despondency.

[...] There were many throw-away messiahs (with gentle amusement) — men whose circumstances, characteristics, and abilities were almost (musically) the ones needed — who almost [...]

Laughter is an excellent aide, and gentle humor. [...]

[...] Frank Watts considered her a friend, attaching more importance than she did to her influence upon his children; but beyond this her present personality has been gently disentangling itself from this plane, and she simply did not remember.

The disentanglement of her present personality has been gradual and gentle. [...]

[...] You can try, gently enough, imagining Framework 2 in your sessions with Ruburt. [...]

I have mentioned counterparts in a very gentle fashion, and families of consciousness, as these are related to mankind. [...]

[...] Now you have some idea in your head that good is gentle and bad is violent and that no violence can be good and this is because in your mind, violence and destruction are the same thing. [...]

[...] And guilt can be a very silent and quiet and passive and gentle thing indeed. [...]

Gentle orders are fine. [...]

(Jane now recalled that just before she began speaking, she received the gently chiding thought—addressed to her from she knew not what source—that since “we” were going to so much trouble to get this material through to “you” [meaning Jane], that she shouldn’t be concerned about explaining it to others. [...]

[...] And your beliefs to the contrary, you have closed your minds to man’s own cooperative nature, to his innate desire for fellowship, his natural bent for taking care of others, and (with elaborate, if gentle emphasis) for altruistic behavior. [...]

“I have appeared to her as a very gentle John of the Disciples, and spoken with her. [...]

Seth began by saying gently, “Your feelings toward me are connected with other attitudes deeply ingrained within you. [...]

“Therefore you consistently choose men in whom you see feminine characteristics, hoping that these more gentle qualities will protect you against the other feared masculine traits that you have exaggerated.”

[...] If you want to test the validity of expectation, then I will not say I challenge you, but I merely gently submit the above schedule.

(And Jane rapped not so gently upon the table for emphasis.)

[...] You would not fear death as annihilation, and would feel your own consciousness gently disentangle itself from those others that so graciously couched it.

I do not expect you to suddenly switch all of your orientation in this situation to Framework 2—yet again I have hope (louder) of gently enticing you both to take great-enough advantage of Framework 2, so that you have more confidence and experience with its qualities.