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There are tendencies and conflicts that have been with the personality in other existences, that have influenced his nature as he vacillated between spontaneity, usually exaggerated, and overdiscipline; in some lives a great lack of concern for the welfare of others, that could be called an innocent callousness, a joyful, utterly spontaneous personality with little idea of practicality. [...]

The depressions are also caused when he overemphasizes control and smothers spontaneity. Now the writing schedule provides two needs, both control and spontaneity, and is therefore comfortable. [...]

[...] In the last life, as a medium, he had swung somewhat to the other side again, deliberately not using his intellect and giving the spontaneous portions full play. [...]

Other portions of the personality, while recognizing this, still felt that the personality as a whole needed to impose some restraints upon what it regarded as flamboyantly spontaneous qualities. [...]

Now discipline is knowing how to use spontaneity and only the fear of blessed spontaneity brings sadness, for it impedes progress and puts boulders in your path. [...] It is you as much as it is me and it is abundant and spontaneous and is not controlled. [...]

[...] Spontaneity, indeed, has its own discipline and is never applied from without. [...] Spontaneity knows its own direction and the god is not fearful. [...]

[...] But I know when you wander from your purpose and when you leap spontaneously toward it and when in the depths of your being you realize the depths of your abilities and deny them. [...]

These need not be necessarily violent motions, but they will induce a feeling of freedom and spontaneity, and increase blood circulation. [...]

[...] Physical work or activity, almost indeed to the point of exhaustion, will be good for him, for the muscles will react with deep spontaneous relaxation.

Your exercises following the book should be much concerned with images of spontaneity, exhilaration and freedom. [...]

[...] The exercises in spontaneity on your part will help to improve the hand condition, for you have been tampering here.

Great talent requires great spontaneity, not great discipline. Spontaneity knows its own order, and will see that it flows in proper, free, orderly directions. Ruburt has been trying to dam his spontaneity to make sure it flows only through his work, and in doing so has hampered both his life and his work.

[...] He fears his spontaneity directed toward you sexually and emotionally would threaten you. [...] Ruburt equates spontaneity with emotionalism, therefore he imagines that his spontaneity will threaten your art.

[...] The spontaneity he feared might interfere with his abilities is precisely the key that will release them and him. It is important that you, Joseph, also examine your beliefs honestly in regard to your work and spontaneity, and your relationship with the world.

He was afraid that the body spontaneity would lead him away from mental and psychic agility. [...]

(Jane has been following the material in recent private sessions about trusting her impulses and spontaneity, with good results.

[...] The doctor represents newer beliefs, and the spontaneous nature of the self, which can act so much more effectively with those new beliefs.

[...] The cats did not represent your physical cats (Mitzi and Billy Two), but old comfortable beliefs about the nature of the spontaneous self connected with ideas he picked up from his mother, in which cats represented the worst aspects of human behavior and impulses: they fawned upon you, yet were evil, and could turn against you in a moment.

Spontaneity has its own discipline. [...] You do not have to fear the spontaneous. [...] In your spontaneity then, never forget the sacred uniqueness of a shadow upon a road, the shape of a leaf, the stain upon a coffee cup—in these simple things find a hint of your own uniqueness and travel beyond them—and ignore conscious restraint that would bind you. [...]

[...] So in yourselves, know spontaneity. And in spontaneity you will find joy. [...]

[...] And if you try to consciously discipline it then, indeed you can tamper with its beautiful, spontaneous order. [...]

[...] Her spontaneous self did.

[...] You will de-hypnotize him, you see, to the effect that he is good, his basic instincts can be trusted, and he can therefore be free to move and act in a spontaneous manner.

[...] The spontaneous self dislikes the spelling chores and the bare typing, and the overly conscientious self fears the books success. [...]

[...] This resentment is on the part of the spontaneous self in the main.

[...] The very challenge was made because it, the challenge, aroused him to action in a situation in which he felt your natural inhibitions would meet up against his denied spontaneity.

When you refused to dance, he interpreted this to mean that he was right: he could be spontaneous only as long as it was socially approved, did not hassle you, and when he did not stand out from the crowd.

[...] It is important because it involves both private and public circumstances, his attitude toward himself, you, and other people, spontaneity, and restraint.

[...] He looked to your reaction after any spontaneous behavior, and he believed, now, that your reaction was negative.

Spontaneous biological motion is an animal’s best insurance of survival, except under those conditions where the animal spontaneously plays dead.

If Ruburt is allowing himself to be spontaneous, then he will spontaneously want to type his script, add to it, clean his house, go outside, see people sometimes, and not see them at other times. [...]

[...] The suggestions serve as reminders that action is possible, and that spontaneity, not repression, is still the best way of countering the situation as it appears to be. [...]

To some extent, there is a natural and spontaneous merging of what you would think of as conscious and unconscious activity. [...]

There are many other natural and spontaneous kinds of comprehension that can also result from the waking and sleeping rhythms that I have suggested. [...]

As a result, other individually built-up beliefs that depended upon the existence of such opposites also spontaneously break down.

[...] This occurs spontaneously whatever your sleep patterns, but is very brief and seldom remembered. [...]

[...] Think of your painting as a spontaneous play of the godlike self, who paints or plays for the pure joy of doing so, without effort, without questions, and without plans. [...] Indulge in a spontaneous childlike game. [...]

[...] There will be an added placidity, as well as spontaneity. [...]

[...] A portrait must contain a journey into personality, and the technique and the form will then follow naturally and spontaneously.

The idea, again, art as a spontaneous play of the godlike self. [...]

Now: We may end up with a spontaneous session now and then, but I am going to close this one—and I do want you to remember creativity, for it can allow you to spontaneously change areas of your life so easily that you wonder it had not been done before. [...]

[...] When the two natural people are largely in operation, then you are able to help each other in an easier and more spontaneous fashion. [...]

The natural person uses creative abilities spontaneously, and those abilities, as I have said often, will show themselves both in the area of Prentice and in the area of Ruburt’s physical condition when you allow them play and leeway. [...]

[...] You laugh spontaneously, the Gods laugh spontaneously. [...]

[...] You felt free to use your own energy spontaneously. [...]

(To Mary Ellen.) You knew what the message would be before you came here on a subconscious basis and Ruburt, all unaware, has already delivered it to you, and it was in his terms to cool it because spontaneity must progress at its own rate and feel comfortable in both physical reality and inner reality. [...]

(To Natalie:) Now, intuitively, you knew that information was going to be given to you and spontaneously you went along with it, and that is good. [...]

[...] That is, the construction of your body and the construction of a world (pause) are produced with the greatest combination of order and spontaneity — an order and spontaneity that seems hidden rather than apparent (all intently).

[...] Instead, of course, your intellectual abilities are supported and promoted by that inner mixture of spontaneity and order that so magically combine to form both your reality and the reality of the world.

That is my spontaneity and my spontaneity is my being here and your spontaneity is your being here and by here, I do not mean this room. [...]

[...] To feel the movement of the spontaneous self. [...]

I remain spontaneous and alive and do not allow myself to be deadened by your projections upon me. [...]

([Kyle:] “Is that your spontaneity?”)

Now Nebene was aroused whenever the abilities showed themselves most spontaneously in Ruburt. [...] Jane was dancing quite spontaneously, incidentally, and to boot somewhat tipsy. [...]

[...] He had little use for spontaneity. [...]

[...] He was afraid that spontaneity would cause him to color certain transcriptions from the past. [...]

[...] He was then afraid that Ruburt’s spontaneity would divert you from the course that it had set you upon, so he began to take a stronger hand.

He, as I explained earlier, has a strong spontaneous self, which he had been taught to fear. It was because of distrust of this spontaneous self that he accepted your suggestions so readily and without argument. [...]

[...] The spontaneous self is remarkably resilient, and bounces back from its own errors when it makes any.

[...] It fills certain spontaneous needs. [...]

He is extremely strong, open, and giving and spontaneous when he is functioning well. [...]

There is no contradiction, though there may seem to be, between spontaneously being aware of your thoughts, and examining them. You do not have to be blind to be spontaneous. You are not being spontaneous when you indiscriminately accept as your own, for a fact, every bit of data that comes to you.

[...] When you are spontaneous, you accept the free nature of your mind and it spontaneously makes decisions as to the validity or non-validity of data it receives. [...]

Left alone, the self acts spontaneously as a unit, but as an ever-changing one. [...]

(11:10.) Many beliefs would automatically fall away quite harmlessly if you were being truly spontaneous. [...]

Spontaneous attempts, rather spontaneous sessions on your own, may be beneficial if they are not overdone. [...]

The results when they are received will appear spontaneous. [...]

While it does appear spontaneously, a good deal of conditioning and expectation is behind it, and your subconscious mind brings it forth. [...]

[...] There must always be a balance between necessary conditioning, ritual and habit, and spontaneity, freedom, and what we will call instantaneous psychic relaxations.

[...] Ruburt is spontaneous. [...] Ruburt is spontaneous—but if he were all that spontaneous he would be walking better. You, Joseph, are spontaneous. [...]

You have disapproved of yourself, thinking yourself not spontaneous, and so your belief has often hampered your natural spontaneity, so that you struggled for notes because you thought you must; that was the kind of person you thought you were.