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[...] Yet you consider yourselves quite independent, and not thrust-off second-handed selves; so dogs and other animals are not simply the manifestation of stray psychic energy on the part of human beings.

[...] If buildings are constructed of bricks quite visible, so mass events are formed by many small, invisible happenings — each, however, fitting together quite precisely in a kind of psychological masonry in which each of you has a mental hand. [...]

[...] Jane and I sat facing each other with the board on our laps, hands on the pointer but asking no questions. [...]

[...] You will still learn to give yourself, your intuitions, the upper hand in your work, Joseph, so that the form and the technique, so beautifully plastered, is secondary, and flows automatically from the idea.

[...] It was almost mechanical, I thought, as if some second-hand god kept reusing the same leaves each year, over and over again, and we were too childish to see beneath the subterfuge.

[...] The confrontation between the United States and Russia over the latter’s missiles in Cuba followed in October, 1962, so once again it had seemed like a good idea to have supplies on hand.

[...] On the other hand the personality involved may see this as a most rewarding and expansive experience, in which the emotions are allowed freedoms ordinarily denied. [...]

We have this evening been somewhat led astray, indeed, ourselves, from the main nature of the subjects at hand. [...]

[...] My writing hand was also tiring, since her rate of dictation had continued to be fast.

(Jane saw me bent over with my right hand moving, either writing or drawing. [...]

[...] The best thing the father can do for now is to be simply kind to the boy, but relieve the child of his heavy-handed thoughts mentally. [...]

[...] I think changes are occurring in the knuckle nodes on the backs of my hands, too....” [...]

[...] On the other hand there are no boundaries to that identity, so that each self is not like a definite unit, always the same. [...]

Viewing you as he viewed himself, using the same logic, he was afraid however that basically you felt our work a detriment to your own, and that its success, while pleasing you on the one hand, might prevent you from success as an artist because you would not have the time, and that you would basically resent it. [...]

[...] I do not know whether I have met the two men mentioned by Seth or not; I am inclined to think I haven’t. On the other hand Tom Hartley told Jane the party was primarily for newspaper people, and I have met some of this local group... [...]

[...] Part of this is because you think that she will demand the sort of environment from which she came—which, quite secretly, appeals to you immensely, and yet for which on the other hand you have nothing but scorn.

[...] (Pause.) A certain amount of mental and psychic alertness is required on the one hand, and on the other alertness itself changes brain patterns in a most effective manner.

[...] On the one hand they represent other events of the predream state, events beyond your comprehension in their “natural condition.” [...]

[...] On the other hand, he felt that they were beset by errant impulses, extravagant, destructive behavior, the taking of drugs, overindulgence in alcohol, or even by suicidal tendencies.

[...] In the 424th session of July 29, Seth said Van Elver, whose portrait I have recently painted, left a mental message for me; to the effect that I shouldn’t use sepia with too heavy a hand.