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[...] You are twice angry at Ruburt’s lack of aggressiveness in the business world, therefore.

[...] You become angry when you think, rightly, that Ruburt is too docile in his dealings, but this is because you are angry at your own lack of power as a child to retaliate against the atmosphere of violence that you sensed in the child’s home.

You are also angry at Ruburt’s docility because it reminds you of your father’s lack of aggression in his business dealings. [...]

He is indeed as blessed as the animals, however, and his failures are the results of his lack of understanding. [...]

Their lack of knowledge and techniques and methods then become quite plain. [...]

[...] If, under conditions naturally safe in the terms of primary experience, you become overwhelmed by unsafe signals from secondary experience — that is, from your reading or whatever — you show a lack of discrimination. [...]

Our main problem is simply Ruburt’s own confidence, or lack of it. [...]

[...] The emotional impetus however is lacking. [...]

Ruburt feels to some extent that there is a lack here.

[...] There are also reasons why the deep subconscious has allowed such difficulties to come about, and in most cases the basic reason here is a lack of understanding and communication between the various portions of the self, so that seemingly the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.

[...] One, a continued lack of acceptance of the inner self could lead to worldwide catastrophe, as the ego runs wild. [...]

[...] The peasants of course worked closely with the land and seasons, with earth’s natural timing, and even though such work seemed to make time go faster, in the overall the sense of present time included a rich dimension from both present and past, so that in your terms it would seem longer by contrast —richer—when people went to bed earlier, lacking the night’s electricity. [...]

[...] He had a tendency on the one hand to idealize them for their love of nature, and on the other hand he somewhat scorned their lack of intellectual breadth. [...]

(Pause.) Love, as it is often experienced, allows an individual to take his sense of self-worth from another for a time, and to at least momentarily let the other’s belief in his goodness supersede his own beliefs in lack of worth. [...]

[...] This psychic region will be protected at all costs, and here there is indeed immunity from all disease or lack. [...]

[...] For they intuitively recognize the need to be free, and they sense the lack of the mystic communion with the earth that has been denied them. [...]

(Pause at 8:48.) Then a lack of communication developed, so that various portions of the personality “hardened” their own positions, sometimes holding quite different sets of beliefs. [...]

[...] You can also see where it is lacking: it has displayed little sense of playfulness, for example, or of expansion. [...]

[...] Some men never achieve any kind of creative or stable relationship with a woman, and so they are acutely aware of that lack in their lives. [...]

[...] The two of you together through these sessions help to spread certain ideas, yet many people not personally involved actually can use the material at times better—but they could not produce it—a very important point, and so in that area of freedom you are so ahead of the game that ordinary behavior by contrast is sadly lacking. [...]

(They had to do with my painting, my lack of financial contributions this year, etc. [...]

(Ideas of self-respect, or its lack, have never meant a thing to me... [...]

[...] You should each be ashamed of yourselves for ignoring the abilities, the freedoms and the pleasures that you have, and instead concentrating on the one area in which lacks are apparent, while at the same time not utilizing the methods I have given you to fully help yourselves in that area—and instead focusing your imagination to continue the situation.

[...] Then your main concentration is not upon freedom at all but upon the lack of it, so that the freedoms that are available, even physically to Ruburt in his condition now, become minimized, and both of you suffer.

Earlier the symptoms themselves masked the lack of spontaneity in writing. [...] His mother, for all her emotionalism, stressed intellectual control, contrasting it with the father’s lack of control. [...]

[...] At 3:50 we had a flurry of activity in 330—2 staff people for Jane’s vitals, the TV lady collecting for the week, and a call from maintenance about heat in 330—or the lack of it. [...]

[...] They are poorer, unhappier, but more than that their lives lack a dimension of being that you two take for granted. [...]

One of the reasons, Joseph, for your own lack of festive spirit in the past has been the result of your realization that this gap between idealism and action is great. [...]

(Seth has referred to my lack of holiday enthusiasm in the past. [...]

The words “Let thy will be done,” represented excellent psychological understanding, for according to Christ’s teachings as originally given, God the father represented the source or parent of the self, who was by nature free from the self’s ignorance or lack of understanding at any given time, and who would know better than the known self those experiences that would fulfill the self’s hopes, dreams, and potentials.

[...] Ruburt is hardly outstanding in having physical difficulties, and overall your lives and the work speak for more of the potential of personality than of personality’s lacks. [...]

[...] You gave yourselves an intimate trust however with each other, and the sense of belonging that the majority of people simply lack.

[...] He believed that you thought it a waste of time, so he did not believe his lack of physical mobility that way would hamper you.

[...] To one extent or another this applies to every field of endeavor as each person adds to the world scene, and as the intents of each individual, added to those of each other person alive, multiply — so that the fulfillment of the individual results in the accomplishments of your world.³ And the lack of fulfillment of course produces those lacks that are also so apparent.

[...] And because of them you stayed in the group, lacking confidence to go ahead.”

In the past at times you did get various symptoms when Ruburt began to improve, and because of his lack of confidence and the state of his beliefs, he backtracked. [...]

[...] Although he lacked that characteristic mark of speaking for a superbeing, this was because he frequently regarded himself as the superbeing. [...]