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This is a tragedy. The game is different.

([Gene]: “Is there tragedy in this game?”)

([Gene]: ? “The discontinuous tragedy is an illusion, isn’t it?”)

Overall, there is no tragedy. There must be an overall commitment.

[...] You have meditations for disaster, beliefs that invite private and mass tragedies. [...]

Many people lost their lives recently in the tragedy of [Jonestown] Guyana. [...]

3. After this session, I was rather surprised when Jane told me that the Jonestown tragedy was an emotionally charged subject for her, and that Seth knew it. [...]

While you believe that death represents the end of personal consciousness, then death must indeed seem the ultimate tragedy or surrender. [...]

[...] Brought so close to death, their own youthful strength rose, and while the tragedy will haunt them, still they will wonder that they were spared—and therefore seek for the meaning of their existence.

[...] It would be for the author to conduct a survey of the surviving members of families involved in such accidents, to study the after-effects, see what changes the tragedy had brought about in their lives, their habits, ways of thinking and looking at life—in short, the detailed study of each family case history would comprise an intimate, in-depth probing of all the complicated effects that had resulted from that single tragic event.

[...] A detailed study of one large family group so involved in a tragedy could easily take up an entire book. [...]

[...] Little by little, using it as a guide, other memories came back to me — all trivial in comparison to real tragedy and yet, to me, bitterly depressing. [...]

A small household tragedy, the death of a cat, yet to me it contained the question of the uniqueness of life and the value of consciousness. [...]

No man can look in his son’s face,
What was done to him he does in turn,
For he carries the hate in his blood.
Ghosts of days forgotten,
Tragedies unseen, unspoken,
Wait in the past’s proud flesh,
And nothing can shake them off.

If you had but one life to live, it would surely be a tragedy if you made any important errors. It would even be a tragedy if you made none—for whatever road you took would seem to be taken at the expense of numberless, perhaps more promising ones.

It is no tragedy, it is of no matter if on a particular day he thinks from the feeling of his legs he does not want to go out. [...]

(9:35.) Like a true absent-minded professor, the conscious self forgets all this, however, so when tragedy appears in the script, difficulty or challenges, the conscious self looks for someone or something to blame. [...]

[...] Jane said that just before the session began, she had a “flash” to the effect that another Kennedy was to be involved in a tragedy, or that the present situation involving Senator Kennedy would evolve into another tragedy.

Another tragedy due, either closely connected with the present situation, with those involved in this present situation, or with another member of the Kennedy family.

(All very intent, leaning forward, eyes wide and dark:) In some manner, even a tragic composition of merit transcends tragedy itself. The composer was exultant in the midst of the deepest emotions of tragedy, or even of defeat. In such cases the tragedy itself is chosen as an emotional framework upon which the psyche plays. [...]

[...] In the same manner, certain individuals can and do choose life experiences that involve great tragedies. [...]

Private events of tragedy seem in a smaller context to happen without man’s knowledge or without his consent. [...] The world with its wars or disasters, its illnesses or poverty, its mass or private tragedies, seems to be thrust upon man or to happen—again without his consent.

[...] Jonestown was far away, remote in another land, I said to Jane, but the potential mass tragedy of Three Mile Island hovers at the edges of our personal worlds. [...]

A mother who… Dropped dead at 35, or something happened drastically to change her, no, died at number 35, or had a psychological tragedy. [...]

[...] There have been tragedies that did not occur in your life and his because of your understanding.

[...] No, died at #35; or had a psychological tragedy, seems to be Rachel’s mother. [...]

[...] The situation, however, shows that he sometimes still thinks he should be able to solve all problems, and to know all the reasons for any given sorrow or tragedy. [...]

[...] The question of life’s tragedies still cannot be answered satisfactorily at the level at which either of you — or anyone else — is currently asking it. [...]

You spoke earlier of tragedies, and I do not understand you. [...]

[...] The flowers thrust themselves up through soil, but they hardly consider the soil or thrusting a tragedy, nor resent the time spent in the frozen earth, for they realize the frozen earth is a condition of their blossoming—a challenge that is an aid, not a hindrance. [...]

[...] The work, the reality, is still a creative achievement, although it may portray a tragedy or unspeakable terror in your terms at any given time.

[...] Or those extremes when entire families suffer patterns of tragedy so whole numbers are wiped out at one time.

[...] We agreed — and hoped — that Seth did seem to be preparing to discuss the Jonestown tragedy for Mass Events.)

[...] Such a tragedy to project upon the living personality.

[...] Now though it seems to you perhaps at this point tragic, the facts are that the real tragedy would have occurred had the cat lived, in your terms, and had you curled up in it, in your house on the corner, and turned your love inward to the animal rather than outward, for there are people who need it. [...]