“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is not just, again, that man does not live by bread alone, but that his life is intimately bound up with his need for creative expression—his need to develop as an individual, and therefore to affect his world. [...]

[...] There is no need to justify your existence. You do not need to write or preach to justify yourselves, for instance. [...]

[...] Do you need an old dead thing like me to tell you what life is? [...]

[...] You know that I will verbalize them for you, but you do not need any verbalization, and when you are finished dillydallying about then I expect you to come back to class on a regular basis and to get to work. [...]

(To Sue.) I scarcely feel the need to speak to you since I have spoken to you so often in the dream state and thankfully, from Ruburt’s standpoint, you remembered at least one occasion when such communications were taking place, and when you both recorded them. [...]

[...] He uses what is important and discards what he does not need. [...]

[...] It answers needs that consciously you do not know exist. [...]

[...] Flu epidemics become social excuses for much needed rest, therefore, and serve as face-saving devices so that the individuals can hide from themselves their inner difficulties. [...] The [epidemics] serve as accepted states of illness, in which people are given an excuse for the rest or quiet self-examination they desperately need but do not feel entitled to otherwise.

[...] Ideally even illnesses are a part of the body’s health, representing needed adjustments, and also following the needs of the subjective person at any given time. [...]

[...] Each individual is innately aware that help is available in every situation, and that information does not need to come through the physical senses alone. [...]

(She wasn’t too clear as to what she was panicky about, but as we talked I began to understand that she was re-experiencing the same round of fears that she had many times in the past, and that many of these private sessions have been devoted to over the years: her mother, her need for love, her fears of abandonment, the conflicts involving success and the psychic work, our relationship, and so forth, if anything’s left. [...]

(Very long pause at 8:13, one of many.) I have most of the material we need now, but must also organize it so that it has the most therapeutic effect possible, and so that it clears Ruburt’s understanding in emotional, intuitive as well as intellectual ways. [...]

[...] He needed love’s expression on your part, and he spontaneously expressed his own love for you in words and action. [...]

[...] Before the session I’d told Jane that I’d always felt that in our relationship my own contributions were doomed to fall short of what she wanted and expected from me —that I’d always felt I couldn’t give all she needed from a marriage partner. [...]

[...] A A originally needed the emotional contact with Ruburt’s student (Venice McCullough) in order to activate within your system.

Ruburt’s clairvoyant abilities need farther development, and I will help here, for instance. [...]

[...] Neither of you need have any doubts here.

[...] For his own development therefore he needed to face this on his own and conquer it. [...]

To give expression to a need for help, or to show a need for comfort would be seen as weaknesses in your eyes. [...] To admit a need for comfort or to admit fears would put him, in your eyes, in the same category as all these others.

[...] The feeling that you did not need him began to grow out of normal bounds in Florida. [...]

Ruburt was correct then in those statements he made last evening, having to do with the balance of routine and spontaneity, for his nature does need both. [...]

You have not given each other, now, the ever-growing, ever-more-rewarding emotional interactions and encounters that you need as individuals and as creators.

[...] The end result however on both of your parts was the inhibition of emotional expression in your relationship, precisely in those most important areas where it was most needed.

[...] You hid your warmth from each other, and denied each other the life-giving, rich emotional interaction that you need as individuals and as creators.

Now I bid you good evening, and when you realize that you have been many people and that you are many people, then you will realize that you need not think so in terms of age, for you are as much now the young woman that you were back in Naples in the 14th century as the man that you now think you are, and you are not bounded by what you think of as your present age. [...]

[...] At some time you no longer need them. [...]

[...] It does not need order put upon it from the outside. [...]

[...] I do not say, “Aha, my friends need to know this and so I will stuff it down their throats.” [...]

Persons vary in the amount of sleep they need, and no pill will ever allow them to dispense with sleep entirely, for too much work is done in that state. [...]

[...] Now with artificial light this need not be the case. [...]

[...] And even those who think they now need more sleep than this would find that they did not, if all the time was not spent in one block. [...]

[...] It makes no difference how many hours of sleep you think you need. [...]

If you did not feel any need to destroy reality (in your terms) in order to understand it, then you would not need to dissect animals, hoping to discover the reasons for human diseases. [...]

I admit that I am being sneaky here; but if you did not feel the need to kill animals to gain knowledge, then you would not have wars, either. [...]

[...] Science needs new theories to unify as many of the four forces of nature (gravity, electromagnetism, and the atomic “strong” and “weak” forces) as possible, instead of separating them as in the past. [...]

[...] Your attention should be completely relaxed otherwise, for time is needed. [...]

[...] There is no need to continue the practice over ten minutes. [...]

[...] He may even refer to those feelings of distrust as a dear frightened part of himself, and then, again, address that part of the self sympathetically — telling it why it need no longer be frightened, and vocally and emotionally stressing the fact that the frightened portion of the self no longer needs defenses, but can now allow itself free and natural expression.

It seems you need certain practical instructions that involve direct experience, immediate feedback, and Ruburt has been receiving some of that in the dream state, and also to some extent in his waking reality, as he begins to trust the feelings of support and relaxation. [...]

There will be more on your nations, for I will fill out the picture to some extent, and did not mean to imply that such people could not change—but that the changes would come in their own fashions, through their own characteristics as they blended, say, the helpful advice of others with their own needs and desires. [...]

Now...you need not take notes...

[...] Seth withdrew rather abruptly, and noticing the change in Jane, I added, “I’ll help Ruburt get back if there’s any need.” [...]

[...] Added to this was what he felt to be the need to find employment, and the hope that his writing could be his livelihood. [...]

He only wrote to his father when he needed money as a child and adolescent, and he only called or contacted Fell, it seemed to him, when he wanted money. [...]

Your own positive action with the pendulum and in your personal life with Ruburt has been most beneficial, and resulted in the kind of support he needed at this time.

[...] If a transcript is needed I will make one and insert it prior to this session. [...]

[...] Ruburt need not think in terms of grim responsibility. [...]

[...] Intuitively you also provided clues that he needed this evening, but he was also ready to put them together.

[...] There is no need avoiding the one accident and having another of a different kind.

It goes without saying that such an accident would be the result of psychic and psychological forces operating within those involved, and by altering the set as has been done, the previous “results”, in quotes, need not occur.

[...] Beneath this of course the psychological need to be hurt, to punish himself, because he cannot strike out against a superior in the work situation.

What we have here is a deep struggle between various needs, a struggle between various portions of the personality, each with their own demands and interpretations of reality.

[...] His needs and personality were the reason, however, that he could communicate with me. [...]

[...] He felt he needed the punishment of the program (Alan Burke, TV), and you helped him avoid it. [...]

If success allows for the furthering of ideas which are good, then success will become a need for the overconscientious self also, and a further reconciliation will take place. [...]

I do not need a permission slip. [...] Do you need the permission of your writing self in order to paint?

[...] Their deaths point the way and will give the impetus that was sorely needed.

I do not need permission to speak. [...]

[...] She needed the touch for physical reassurance. [...]