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[...] You can generally expect two kinds of response—one dealing with relaxation, and the other with better functioning or performance.

The response of relaxation after the first session in fact helped set the stage for the better functioning that Ruburt noticed in various areas of the body this evening. [...]

The body is a responsive organism. [...]

Breezeway PM: Response right knee new, left forefinger healing all over—talked to parent of my being. [...]

[...] Among other things, the poem is a passionate declaration of psychic independence, written in response to Seth’s ideas in this book.)

You must realize, along those same terms, that you are also responsible for the fantastic body of the earth as you know it. And when you are depressed and worried about the power of destructive thought, realize that on an unconscious basis, you are also responsible for the seasons, and for the skies, and for the mountains, and for all those supportive elements of your planet. [...]

(After the experiment Sue explained the thoughts she had regarding creativity and responsibility.)

Creativity is its own responsibility. [...]

([Theodore:] “If I have a thought some person has wronged me in some way, and I would like to slug him, am I doing that person harm in this reality or in another, and if so, how do I handle this responsibility?”)

[...] Now that kind of a suggestion, automatically with Ruburt, brings up inner responses, arguments and contradictions with experience on a physical level. [...]

Before we finish tonight I want to speak about the responsibility for his consciousness, and at least mention the morning dilemma. [...]

Ruburt took the responsibility for his consciousness in other areas far more than most people do. [...]

It was not that he didn’t accept the responsibility so much as that, in that weakest area, he did not realize the strength of his own conscious thoughts to alter the body mechanism. [...]

[...] [In the note she’s making for her Introduction to Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche, Jane describes a world view as “…a living psychological picture of an individual life, with its knowledge and experience, which remains responsive and viable long after the physical life itself is over.”]

If, however, you dwell mentally in a generalized environment of fear, the body is given no clear line of action, allowed no appropriate response. [...]

[...] The body’s responses must be specific.

The overall sense of health, vitality, and resiliency is a generalized condition of contentment — brought about, however, by multitudinous specific responses. [...]

[...] At first I thought the dry air in the house during the winter was responsible, since for a while I thought I was having trouble hearing her—but this doesn’t seem to really apply. [...]

(Today I mailed to those in command at Prentice-Hall eight copies of our letter to the legal department, in response to their letter of November 24 explaining the disclaimer they want to use in Mass Events. [...]

His early writing, and his best later writing, spring alike from that realization, when he forgets ideas of our work’s responsibility, or how respectable he should appear, and simply does it because it is a natural expression of his being —one expression among others. [...]

[...] They are built up in response to emotional intensity.

[...] Cells are not just responsive to light because this is the order of things, but because an emotional desire to perceive light is present.

All of the automobile’s parts, however, are alone responsible for its operation as long as it has a responsible driver. [...]

You are still both in the habit of minimizing improvements, and negatively projecting into the future, although at times you have spurts of confidence that are responsible for Ruburt’s quite definite physical improvement.

[...] I am not telling you to take responsibility for Ruburt’s progress at all, but saying that it is certainly to your advantage, and his, that you exert more energy there in terms of active encouragement. [...]

[...] He did not want to accept full responsibility for the gallery, and yet he wanted definite responsibility along definite, limited lines.

[...] If he had set out, and he didn’t, to plan a process that would enable him to use his abilities to the fullest in his writing and other fields in which he is interested, and yet to discipline himself so that he did not scatter his abilities, if he had set out on a plan toward maturity, and to set definite controls upon his sometimes too fast, out-of-proportion responses, he could not have found a better path than the one which he is now following.

The child emotionally was almost paralyzed with terror, hence the thyroid condition, hence also the child’s quick motions, fast, frightened responses that were desperate defense mechanisms. [...]

Nerves are stimulated so that the areas of the body become more alive and responsive to energies that can be overlooked in the face of cultural or secondary events. [...]

There is an intent, of course, to awaken the body’s responses. [...]

[...] Now when you act, as when at various times you encountered Prentice with definite complaints, or requests, there you were making a positive response to a specific condition, with good results.

[...] (Pace slower yet.) It is also responsible you see for the remarkable potential that he has. [...]

(“Has the spontaneous self ever been responsible for any of the symptoms?”)

[...] It should be remembered that the overly conscientious self is also responsible for lifelong continuity of purpose, giving direction to the spontaneous self.

[...] The addition, however, brought with it a new sense of responsibility—not just to make money, but as his writings continued he wanted his creative work to be “responsible” and he began to discover that others, so it seemed, were all too ready to latch upon what he almost considered magical inspirational productions, and to follow them with very literal minds. So then his creative endeavors not only had to bring in money, but they had to be good, moral, responsible, for they were becoming part of a body of work.

[...] You make decisions as the result of feeling impulses to do this or that, to perform in one manner or another, in response to both private considerations and in regard to demands seemingly placed upon you by others. [...]

(9:35.) Impulses arise in a natural, spontaneous, constructive response to the abilities, potentials, and needs of the personality. [...]

4. For three hours to write whatever he wants, freeing mind from symptoms and responsibilities. [...]

[...] You have no responsibility to save the world or find the solutions to all problems—but to attend to your particular personal corner of the universe. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s response is very healthy for him, since it involves the acceptable use of exuberant and aggressive energy, and the sense of power in the physical realm.

[...] His response there was excellent for him, as you said. [...]

[...] He strongly feels his responsibility to you, to advise you well. [...]

[...] I can foresee probabilities, but you make your own reality, and I will not take the responsibility. [...]

[...] His response was to hide. [...]

Not walking properly was an inappropriate defense mechanism no longer needed, a reaction in response to a program that made him feel unsafe.

[...] You are in effect putting the responsibility for your own development where it does not belong, and turning your destiny over to another person in a very real manner, in order to escape taking full responsibility for your own destiny.

The proper purpose should be the development of the self, and the development of abilities, and it is to elude this responsibility that the chase was originated. [...]