“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Certain elements are leaving your lives now, and with the signing of the contract Ruburt feels socially, economically and creatively justified, and accepted.

You do not need to justify your existence by painting. [...]

[...] In that framework of belief, Ruburt felt justified in using physical symptoms as protection on both levels. [...]

(10:06.) You fall into the habit of accepting the disapproval as fact, instead of realizing that it represents a feeling you have at any given time that may or may not be justified. You can kick a dog, and if you disapprove of your act that is a justified disapproval of an act (intently). [...]

[...] Also—he wasn’t justifying that he wheeled and dealed at that time....”)

Again, the end does not justify the means — so no amount of war is ever going to produce a meaningful peace.

Many men look forward to having sons, while at the same time they revere marriage as a necessary part of respectable family life, and also feel that marriage is somehow degrading — particularly to a male — and that the sex act itself is only justified if it brings him an heir.

[...] Your present beliefs structure the memories which will parade before you now — and what you remember will then seem to justify the beliefs.

[...] (Emphatically:) If an individual believes that he is basically unworthy he will recall, or be given, those lives that justify that idea. [...]

All of the fears are based of course on the belief that Ruburt must write to justify his existence. [...]

[...] Because the Jews were considered less than human—or, at best, human defects—they were thought of as justifiable sacrifices on the altar of “the genetic betterment of mankind.” [...]

[...] I see the passive, thinking and unthinking tolerance of animal experimentation as a classical case of a society using ends to justify means—yet in the United States, at least, we carefully teach each generation of our species that such rationalizations aren’t morally acceptable….

(10:05.) These ideas went a long way to justify later scientific experiments that involved giving pain to animals, for example: nature itself had no feeling. [...]

Darwin was faced with the proposition of a kind god who was more cruel than any human being, and with supernatural power behind him to boot—so Darwin tried to justify God’s ways to man. [...]

[...] When you curse another, you curse yourselves, and the curse returns to you.’” The answer must be considered in the light of the previous conversation, in which the student was trying to justify violence as a means of attaining peace. [...]

[...] But even at these deeper levels, hate is not justified, since an honest confrontation with it will lead the individual back to the love upon which it is really based.

[...] What do you have to say about this?” We don’t feel like justifying ourselves.

[...] The writing self was obviously a part of his being, and so justified it.

That sort of exposure, in your terms, has not happened before, and of itself it forces both mind and heart to question some dictates that have been taken for granted in the past—for in the past almost any kind of destruction or war or violence was justified if it was done in God’s name, or if the soldiers were marching “on the side of right.”

Now: Ruburt also saw that he believed he had to justify his existence through his writing. [...]

[...] You may “justify your life” by biological creativity, and then latch onto your children and never want to let them go. [...]

[...] Tell Ruburt the end does not justify the means (with humor) in his particular situation, any more than in any other. [...]

[...] “I didn’t quite get it through, about the end justifying the means. [...]

[...] It carried him through all of his early years, this belief in the writing self that automatically justified his existence and more (underlined) than made up for any other lacks, he felt. [...]

[...] He was afraid it did not justify your love. [...]

[...] And then of course it does, and you think that the physical circumstances certainly justify your attitude. [...]

[...] When you think in terms of want, and then see physical materializations of want, you are tempted to think that your fears were justified, and therefore those thoughts are reinforced. [...]

[...] He felt closed off, yet did not consciously think his feelings justified. [...]

[...] Rationalization is one method by which the ego justifies its acceptance of a reaction which it once rejected as ineffective.