“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] These could be a smothering effect that you would try to conquer, but in doing so, there would be the tendency that you would try too hard. [...]

[...] You also used the drawing and your talent to some degree as a method of exerting your own independence from her oftentimes smothering love. [...]

[...] He would be as upset as you over a smothering closeness. [...]

[...] Otherwise identity is smothered to a large degree beneath a strictly oriented one-sex identification, with other characteristics masked and denied expression.

It was not safe, too rich and smothering, like gravy that you also dislike.

If this is realized then the personality will not feel smothered. [...]

The depressions are also caused when he overemphasizes control and smothers spontaneity. [...]

[...] Protective mechanisms because of faulty beliefs are allowed to predominate, as when an overprotective parent manages, with the best of intentions, to smother a child. [...]

[...] In so doing, however, he grew the seeds of an organization that would smother the ideas. [...]

The ego must sit lightly, otherwise it can smother the talent that lies beneath. [...]

[...] He accepts them, but then in an intellectual attempt to capture them he smothers them to death.

[...] The negative and bitter qualities of personality came fully to the fore, uncompromised and unredeemed by the fulfilling and creative functions that they had also smothered.

[...] But my dear Joseph, there is no true practicality in smothering your abilities by working in a position where you cannot use your abilities. [...]

[...] There are various schools and religions that try to express the self’s validity, but their distortions have smothered the basic authenticity of the teachings.

[...] But in some newish way I seemed to understand how much seemingly mental work is dependent upon physical vigor, flexibility and so forth; and then rather strongly—emotionally it came to me that I’d thought it my duty to clamp down physically, to cut down mobility in order to … have mobility as a writer; that is, to sit down, cut down on impulses, distractions, to make sure I’d ‘do my work,’ pursue my goal undeviatingly; that new [book] contracts instantly led me to that kind of behavior and that I really see that such behavior carried to its extremes would end up smothering my writing, defeating the purposes it (seemingly) meant to protect. [...]