“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your freedom, or the lack of it, exists within yourselves. In your situations and compared with others you can hardly complain of a lack, as far as impediments from without are concerned. So the impediments or the feeling of a lack of freedom comes from within.

[...] It is highly vital that you do not allow any lack of confidence to cow you. [...] Presently you can reinforce each other’s lack of confidence. [...]

In the past, improvements did not “take” for a long-enough period to produce desired results, because of your own lacks of confidence—Ruburt in particular and you secondarily. [...]

Many of the sensations or stages that are definitely considered negative at such times, and certainly appear so in your experience, are the result of misunderstandings because of ingrained beliefs about body behavior, or the result of your lack of confidence. [...]

[...] The return to the natural moment can be used quite effectively, but not if you constantly reinforce your lacks of confidence.

It shows however a lack of freedom in a pivotal situation. [...] The sexual area also combines both the lack of mobility and the womanly aspects, so freedom and the “as if” game in these areas is doubly important and vital.

[...] The danger is in concentrating upon the lacks, the “sore spots,” building up greater concentrations of mistrust. [...]

[...] But the lack of trust is the important issue.

[...] The resulting symptoms then served to reinforce the initial lack of trust. [...]

[...] Some part of you feels that when such blatant distortions occur, as sometimes occur in the packaging of the books, that far greater invisible lacks of integrity lie buried within. Now that is true and not true, as you know—for ideally, how marvelous it would be if each person could indeed understand those balances and artistic lacks of balances when they appear.

[...] (Pause.) He was willing to put up with a good deal to do so, to overlook lacks of taste in presentation, say.

[...] You felt that the lack of taste, and often of artistic integrity, was so blatant that it blighted the words themselves, marred the message. [...]

[...] I spoke on television, and you were both appalled at the gulf between what you saw as the idealized message of our work, and the ludicrous (pause) lack of integrity of the environment in which that ideal was expressed. [...]

In most such cases there is a lack of the normal range of emotional expression. Such persons often find it extremely difficult to express love, joy, or gratitude, for example, and this lack of expression is taken for granted by others, who do not see it in its true light, but think instead that the person is simply reticent.

We will have more to say on all of these issues — but now I want to discuss spontaneity, or its lack, in relationship to sexuality and health.

[...] Your daily remarks constantly speak of financial lack, except when you make a particular attempt to speak differently.

[...] You make a point, each of you, of concentrating upon your financial lacks, rather than your gains. [...]

[...] You were both lacking the feeling of optimism that would make them work. [...]

[...] It combats the lack of confidence that had built up.

[...] The door closed, the additional blankets, the relative lack of fresh air, the disinclination to get up when it is chilly, to record dreams, say, or go to the bathroom or whatever.

[...] This has something to do with your lack of action. [...]

[...] It is the indecision and lack of certainty, rather than any decision, that troubles him in this area. [...]

[...] I have often puzzled over our lack of action in seeking larger quarters, etc. [...]

[...] They involve what I’ll call innocent perceptions, to show their lack of sophistication. [...]

[...] Nevertheless the lacks that exist, for example in your landlady, will bring about further lacks, and resentment on your part only hurts you. [...]

[...] This lack is always with him, and it is caused by a particular shallow area in his personality that is not developed.

[...] Because of his particular nature, these agreements on your part to avoid such issues, and the resulting lack of positive encounters, was more damaging to Ruburt.

Your habits both became extremely sloppy in that regard, and it was easy for both of you to justify the lack of increasingly rewarding emotional interaction by saying it went into your separate work, and into our work.

[...] Again, he suffers more from the lack of rich emotional interaction than you; he is less able to take it.

Gradually he inhibited the love and joy, and you the negatives until your lives lacked those natural rises and falls in feelings in tone. [...]

[...] I wondered then at my lack of feeling. [...] I confess the lack of feeling here has caused me periodic concern.

(During argument sequence: surprised as anyone else at sudden pounding of hand [has been lacking in strength for some time—had no idea it could pound that hard]—did feel myself controlled by someone else; vivid, angry vital woman, engaged in an argument. [...]

(5:09.) When people become ill, worried or fearful, one of the first symptoms of trouble is a lack of pleasure, a gradual discontinuance of playful action, and an over-concentration upon personal problems. In other words, illness is often first marked by a lack of zest or exuberance.

[...] The fact that you have not moved does reflect a lack of initiative on both of your parts.

[...] I always thought that my work made up for the lack of success in obtaining a dwelling we liked. [...]

[...] Briefly, the new environment next door aroused him, but the apartment, while representing expansion, as I told you then, also carried a built-in boomerang—the public hall, the lack of coordination, a divided place. [...]

Both of you then have considered your dwelling place a symbol of not going ahead, of lack of initiative. [...]

(11:10.) There should be considerable improved functioning noticeable in Ruburt’s body—some considerable lack of habitual restraint in motion occurring, say, as affairs now stand, anywhere from now to a week or ten days.

[...] As a result, poverty becomes evidence of a lack of morality. [...]

Some of you will have a contradictory belief that poverty is virtuous, and that wealth is a vice and represents evidence of a spiritual lack. [...]

You were quite struck by the lack of communication between yourself and your mother yesterday. (In Sayre.) Or rather, you realized that she communicated her feelings very well, and her lack of understanding, while you communicated less; although your attitude in itself there is of course a communication. [...]

[...] The question you asked in our sessions was in your mind symbolic of a lack of communication still between you and Ruburt, at deeper levels. [...]

As a result however he does feel the lack of more frequent, fresh, completely different inspirational material. [...]

Evil, so termed, is a lack of knowledge, a lack of fulfillment, a lack of growth, measured against that which has felt inward enough to understand more of its nature. [...]

[...] What seems to you like inner difficulties or problems, or lack of success, like Ruburt’s desolations, serve as the very impetus to development. [...]