“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Nor would he be necessarily more fulfilled in that role, and it is that imagined, frightening role against which he pushes, and then retreats.

The overly conscientious self is the part that will retreat, that carries grudges, that believes an eye for an eye, and is relatively uncompromising. [...]

[...] Luckily the intuitional self did not retreat to any large extent. [...]

[...] Now the mail has retreated way into the background, even though I don’t forget what it means, that we get such a response from what we do, and that each of those writers is sincere, and in my opinion deserving of an answer. [...]

[...] He was too socialistically inclined by far for the establishment, and when he turned finally to the land, it was a proud and yet defiant retreat. [...]

(Neighbors stopped in at 8:45, however, and Jane explained afterward that because of the visit, brief as it was, the material had “retreated away” from her internal perception somewhat. [...]

[...] This is to be an active exploration and endeavor, not a passive withdrawal, and certainly not a cowardly retreat. [...]

(Long pause at 10:14.) They finally retreated into isolation from the world that they knew, and the voice of their leader at the microphone was a magnified merging of their own voices. [...]

[...] In the back of your mind you questioned whether giving him a new, more comfortable chair to work in was or was not a smart thing to do: would it encourage him to retreat to his room and his writing, and simply serve to intensify old conditions? [...]

Pleasant relaxation is the key, as opposed to a retreating, drugged-like mood, or an overly tense, overly conscious worry, as to the degree of his improvement. [...]

[...] In many ways he is indeed a creature of habit, and he feels comparatively safe at the gallery and hates to give up a retreat which has helped financially, certainly. [...]

He had retreated into the formlessness that he had himself created. [...]

[...] The whole nature of your independent and joint creativity involved a retreat from the world that you both enjoyed, followed by, in the case of books, an expression in the world—in which, however, the books appeared in your stead: a way of life that involved usual publicity—lectures and so forth—seemed to threaten that kind of existence to Ruburt, in which he feared expression itself would be diverted, simplified, so that the message that finally did get through would not be the same message at all as the original one. [...]

(10:15.) Your body reacts to the feelings of insecurity by retreating to whatever degree, slight or occasional, or with determined persistence—your body or anyone else’s—as long as you really believe you live in a state of threat.

[...] They can completely envelop, for example, a small cell, or retreat to the nucleus within. [...]

[...] Retreats do the same thing. [...]

[...] and do not retreat in the summertime from your inner self.

[...] Nor was, nor should, my well-meaning suggestion be taken, as Ruburt at least once mentioned, as any sort of temptation to him to retreat from the outer world.

[...] Not through a violent suicide, but through a half-calculated general retreat.

[...] The experience interrupted my retreat. [...]

[...] I say incipient because the condition is momentarily at a point where it can develop cancerous globules; or the condition, a beginning tumor, can retreat and shrink, and entirely disappear, according to the inner climate of the woman’s psyche.