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[...] If human relationships are highly regulated and supervised, or family members encouraged to spy upon their relatives or friends, then you have the same kind of curtailment of natural expression and communication.

[...] He should remember that many people have far greater hassles, not only with health but with personal relationships, finances and vocations, and without any satisfying accomplishments to offset their “misfortunes.”

[...] This is because its activity is also involved with relationships that do not show in any of your calculations.

(“What was the relationship?”)

The new relationship with Prentice-Hall should work very well. [...]

(Long pause at 9:37.) In a fashion, all of the material that I have given you in the annals of our relationship was meant to lead you in one way or another to a place where the true nature of reality could at least be glimpsed. [...]

These elements are all living and highly potent in the affairs of his life — so that in no way do his relationships with his mother (pause) become any isolated concentration, existing apart from the other affairs of life. [...]

Obviously your relationships with your bodies are highly vital, intimate. Those relationships also represent, however, the most natural aspects, in certain regards, in which the self must rely upon that source that initially gave it life. [...]

[...] They may feel the grass or sidewalk or the road, but the peculiar individual sensate life of the grass itself, or of the ant, escapes the feet, which are involved in their own reality and concerned with these other things only in their relationship to feethood.

[...] To utilize future probable events, the physical brain would be forced to enlarge its function while keeping the individual in clear relationship with the present moment of power, or corporeal effectiveness. [...]

[...] Only after such relationships are established is isolation of that nature beneficial. [...]

[...] To me it’s a sort of … yes, sturdy connection of one person to the universe … a one-to-one relationship; a yearning to participate in the meaning of existence; a drive to appreciate nature and salute it while adding to it; but the knowledge that nature is also a touchstone to a deeper unknowable essence from which we and the world spring.

[...] In such a religious drama however (long pause), the main personality is much more conscious of his inner knowledge, more aware of his abilities, far better able to use them, and exultantly familiar with his relationship to all of life.

[...] This time, you know intuitively, has no psychological inner relationship to the dream experience.

The relationship between these two universes is truly astounding, and such interchanges have great transforming effects.

At a conscious level, of course, neither of you realized, or wanted to realize, the kind of complete repeal and overhaul that was implied by our sessions, and for some years you managed to hold many official views of reality along with the newer concepts, not ready to understand that an entire new way of thinking was involved, a new relationship of the individual with reality. [...]

[...] (with emphasis) is instead implied, and that entire reorientation will effortlessly bring about a new relationship of Ruburt with his body, with his life, and with the adventure the two of you have embarked upon. [...]

Primarily, such a consciousness knows itself, or tries to know itself, only in relationship to others or exterior conditions. [...]

Here, as opposed to the apartment, where the life-styles were seemingly in a more transitory situation, you have both again dramatized yourselves to some degree as outsiders in a negative fashion, disapprovingly seeing yourselves in relationship to your neighbors, but not constructively. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s early mystic life was also bound up with priests who were males, with whom one could not have any sexual relationship. [...] While he is so confused, then sexual relationship with you also becomes evil. [...]

The relationships for the next life have to be settled upon, and this involves telepathic communication with all those who will be involved. [...]

[...] Now: There are personal cycles of course, in which families may reincarnate, taking different relationships to each other, and you have been involved in several of these.

[...] We shall endeavor to handle our relationships with the outside world in such a way that your private situations are not bothered any more than absolutely necessary.

[...] However, this is a rather permissive relationship in many respects, and one of my primary concerns has been to allow both of you to recognize and develop your own abilities.

(Because of his particular disposition, Rooney had furnished ideal companionship for our other cat, Willy, who is several years older, and Jane and I had often speculated about the special relationship between the two. [...]

(Yesterday I’d mentioned to Jane that I hope Seth, in his current book, will go into the real relationship between wellness and disease. [...]

[...] The relationship is not particularly good for either of them, and brings forth their weaknesses rather than their strengths. [...]