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Our Jesuit would want to hurt himself, and become therefore the victim in such an accident, or be the victim of some kind of one-man affair. The boys would want to hurt others. Unnumbered elements can still intrude to change their probability, even now, however; but the probabilities when Ruburt perceived the impressions were that the event would occur. For the reasons given this is now far less a probable event.

(“Or the other guy is travelling in twos, like say two cycles... Now I get Bill hurt in this, his right arm, or hand or shoulder.” [Pause.] “Rather badly. Peg thrown clear.

(“Poppa Joe. Maybe one of the kid’s relatives, or one of the kids.” Pause. “Something about a ring, and Bill. I don’t recall if he wears rings; but if not then the ring finger would be hurt, particularly. But I have a picture of a ring, something like the one you wear. Maybe it’s the other guy’s.”

[...] Often in such situations he will hurt himself because he has an exaggerated (underlined) idea of the hurt any normal aggressive reaction, from a frown to a verbal one, can have.

[...] On the negative side he can go overboard, fearing to cause another the slightest hurt, and hurting himself instead.

When Ruburt finds himself concentrating upon his symptoms, then let it be a sign that normal aggressions are not being recognized, that he is afraid of hurting someone else, and that this is blocking his normal enjoyment of daily activities.

[...] “If you didn’t watch yourself,” Jane said, “you could get hurt yourself or hurt other people.”

(Jane also felt that the sessions could be responsible for more deaths, or hurting people. [...] Jane basically didn’t want anything to do with sick people — was afraid she could hurt them in sessions.

(Jane didn’t think the sessions could hurt her, though she often felt she didn’t get enough information through for herself. [...]

[...] Let us examine your joint and individual feelings about the need for solitude in which to work, and your disinclination to “hurt people’s feelings” when they intrude.

Why is it that you are so afraid of hurting peoples’ feelings in that regard? [...]

[...] At times you felt as a child that painting, or rather drawing, hurt her, and that also she might retaliate by withholding her support in other areas. [...]

He long ago made a pact with himself, that he would not hurt you. [...] So when you said to him “use your abilities fully,” he was in a quandary, for to use them might be to hurt you in that particular manner.

[...] Quite simply, she is saying “I hurt because you hurt.”

She is saying “You are not only hurting yourself, but you are hurting me also.” [...]

[...] I could tell she was both afraid of my touch, that it hurt, and that she hadn’t expected the response in the leg or the motion.

[...] At the same time Jane was in pain — natural enough, I said — for according to conventional belief, muscles that hadn’t been used were supposed to hurt. [...]

(She’d kept her body down for years, I said, and now when it moved she hurt and complained, even though presumably the motion was what she wanted. [...]

[...] He will not hurt you if you hurt him to retaliate, but he will escape, close himself off from further hurt, leaving a shell behind, an animated but empty one.

[...] You have often kept him from being hurt by overinvolvement. [...]

It is natural to feel upset or sad, or like crying when your body hurts, for whatever reasons. [...]

[...] As I stated this does not mean that at certain stages if his knees hurt he cannot cry, or that either of you should consider that a defeat. [...]

[...] There is a strange, indeed rock-bottom refusal here, on his part to hurt anyone deeply, for whatever reason. It is impossible for his personality therefore to do anything he feels (underlined) would hurt the one person in the world with whom he feels close.

This is the result of his intimate knowledge of what it is to be so hurt, connected with the mother experience. Therefore in this situation he would fight back but he could not hurt you. [...]

He has been afraid of directing either outward for fear of hurting others. [...]

Therefore, no thing, in your terms, is hurt. However, in your frame of reference, no thing, in your terms, is hurt without giving acceptance to the hurt; without attracting it and without bringing it to itself, for within your frame of reference you form your own reality. [...]

[...] Basically, you cannot hurt anything, but as long as you think that you can, then you must dwell within that reality. [...] No one, therefore, could hurt our friend’s fish, even if it were a live one, in your terms. [...]

[...] How could a three-year-old child, standing in the snow on Middle Avenue in Saratoga Springs, be responsible for hurting anything — or anybody?

[...] “You’ve never hurt anybody, sweetheart —”

[...] “You never hurt anyone,” I said again. [...]

[...] And I did not mean to hurt your (class) feelings; far be it from me to hurt your feelings when you hurt your own so well you do not need help from me. [...]

[...] And I did not mean to hurt your (class) feelings; far be it from me to hurt your feelings when you hurt your own so well you do not need help from me. [...]

In certain positions, those areas hurt when his weight is on them in a certain way. [...]

[...] He interprets this negatively (pause) because he is so afraid of hurting others. He takes it for granted that natural thought, left alone, will be destructive and hurt others.

[...] He is afraid of hurting others through his thoughts, but the fear is overly inhibiting him. [...]

(“Why should he be afraid of hurting others?”)

[...] They had to lift Jane, and this hurt her; she cried. [...]

[...] It was harder for me to tell him than I thought it would be, since I didn’t want to hurt anyone, etc. [...]

[...] I was still worrying that I’d hurt others and cost them money, though.)

[...] A child will cry when it is hurt. It will stop when the hurt stops, and the emotion behind the cry will automatically change into another. [...]

[...] While it is generally quite natural for the child to cry or feel “badly” when hurt, this inclination can be carried through belief to such an extent that prolonged feelings of desolation are adopted as definite behavior patterns.

Behind this would be the belief that any hurt was inherently a disaster. [...]

[...] First, after just half asleep I suddenly knew how to turn over in a particular easy way that didn’t hurt nearly as much as usual. [...]

The expressed (underlined) emotional anger, accusation or hurt on Ruburt’s part would automatically, or should, bring out in you an answering emotional statement. Answering in that any hurts or reasons on your part would be expressed with feeling, and the way cleared for an emotional statement of love, regret, or on both of your parts an emotional expression of sorrow for having hurt the other.

[...] They hurt. I know that they hurt.”)

[...] He feels that this will hurt you, but more than this, it makes him feel insecure. [...]