“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If it involves a circumstance that cannot be altered in physical terms, then you have settled upon it as a framework in order to enhance and use other abilities in concentrated form. The main point is not to concentrate upon the liabilities but to pursue those abilities that you have, for the great energies of your personality will be directed in those avenues.

[...] Many of you have a tendency to believe that anyone with such abilities as Ruburt has, has no problems or challenges. [...]

[...] There will be a reason for it, and that reason will lie in those abilities that you have left free and open for yourself to pursue.

[...] After that, Ruburt felt that he must protect his ability, guarding it against the world, and even against any other tendencies that he felt might run counter to his ability. [...]

In one way or another, your creative abilities have always sustained you, at least with subconscious knowledge, and with a sense of the greater creative capacities always present within you. [...]

[...] He thought that body and mind were two different things, that the body must be controlled for the sake of the mind, that his consciousness existed apart—in his head, say—with its own abilities, while his body had its own pursuits as apart from his own. [...]

His creative spontaneous self created the body to begin with, and all of its physical desires were precisely those that his creative abilities needed—a quickness of body and mind working together, a quick perception mentally and physically, a natural exhilaration that is supported by (underlined) the power, of his own nature.

You must know your own personality and develop your own abilities, and this should be your quest now. [...] You are not developing your abilities, but using vital energies in pursuit of something that you do not basically want to attain.

First of all, the teaching ability is a good one, but it is being hampered and not developed simply because you are using vital energy in this counterfeit manner. Your abilities as a teacher will not be fully developed until you realize the potential of your personality.

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. [...]

[...] The questioner is subconsciously aware of those abilities that should be developed in her own personality, and attempts to project these outward into someone else. [...]

[...] He cannot turn himself off, or his abilities off. It is only when you make a differentiation, and basically an artificial one, between other natural abilities and psychic ones, that you think of his psychic activities as a conflict.

He has been afraid to use his abilities freely, and therefore set up physical conditions that remind him constantly of his body and objective physical life, for fear that he will go too far beyond it. [...]

[...] (Taurus.) It is one, for reasons incidentally that I will give you at a later time, that brings the flowering of ability in later years, and that also provides, when strong talents are present, a conservative countering measure.

When he allows the experience, his creative abilities will translate it. [...]

None of your abilities contradict each other, or oppose each other, or minimize each other, or in any way negate any of your probable accomplishments. They are meant to be creatively stacked, not just to be combined for example in conventional terms, but the abilities naturally are psychically merged. [...]

[...] The occupation filled many of his needs and expressed some of his abilities. [...]

[...] Despite himself, however, he was stretching the dimensions of his own consciousness, exercising his consciousness in different directions, expanding the scope of his abilities—and in so doing contributing a small masterpiece to the world. [...]

[...] Playful games in childhood, not dictated by teachers or parents, often give clear indications of a child’s abilities and leanings. [...]

[...] Ruburt is being led to discover that the answers to his intellectual questions about his abilities, my existence, life after death, the solution to his physical problems, can only be discovered through the appreciation and use of his intuitive and psychic abilities. [...]

Then the mind, the intellect, alters its focus, using its abilities automatically for intuitive ends, and its questioning abilities are freed from endless queries from the outside, so to speak, and it joins with the intuitions, seeking its answers freely in that greater realm.

[...] Such a need wouldn’t have developed, of course, until she became aware of her psychic abilities to begin with. [...]

[...] He had to show that he had psychic abilities, but that he was in control of them. [...]

He has as you know excellent intuitive abilities. In the past in his poetry the intuitive abilities were somewhat isolated. [...]

You had used creative abilities often in the past. [...] If the psychic abilities showed themselves, then this would be your last reincarnation. [...]

[...] He relied upon the intellectual abilities therefore as the stronger, because in his own background he believed the male to have the greater strength.

[...] The quick motions were always associated with inner intuitive feminine abilities. [...]

[...] By looking at your own life, you can quite easily discover in what areas your own abilities lie by following the shape of your own impulses and inclinations. You cannot learn about yourself by studying what is expected of you by others — but only by asking yourself what you expect of yourself, and discovering for yourself in what direction your abilities lie.

[...] I am saying, therefore that even insects have an esthetic sense, and again, that each creature, and each plant, or natural entity, has its own sense of value fulfillment, seeking the greatest possible fulfillment and extension of its own innate abilities.

[...] In human terms, this means that each person has a vast bank of avenues that lead to value fulfillment, and that individual abilities will ideally form their own boulevards of expression.

[...] Each individual person literally possesses far more abilities than can be adequately expressed in any given lifetime. [...]

While trusting himself enough to use the abilities—and in a largely uncongenial social atmosphere—he still found it necessary to be highly critical, and not to rely upon the abilities too much, lest he was unknowingly as deluded as many people would certainly say he was. That meant, however, that to some degree he cut himself off from solutions that the abilities themselves could provide.

[...] Even science fiction was not large enough, imaginatively, to contain his abilities, and when those abilities did indeed flower he was afraid he was more of an outcast than ever.

[...] His own abilities, again, kept working through all of the frameworks, however, and none of them could content him.

[...] Once again, of course, there were no guides in the exterior world, and the two of you determined to explore the nature of reality to the best of your abilities. [...]

(11:14.) In your mind, therefore, see those probable abilities or events taking place. [...] There are literally many other probable you’s. You can draw upon their abilities, as in their own way they call upon your own, for you are all intimately connected.

[...] Within your own subjective reality are traces of all those roads not taken, those abilities not used. [...]

Write down or enumerate all of your known physical and mental abilities, whether they have been developed or not, and all of those inclinations toward particular activities — even those only remotely considered — as well as those that have come at all vividly to mind.

[...] It is your own purpose and it is up to you to fulfill it, and it necessitates the full use of all your abilities—your mental abilities—and your intuitional abilities. [...] You (Florence) are meant to teach other classes, but you must develop you own abilities to do so. [...]

[...] You have the ability to do this. Until you realize that you have this ability, you are powerless. [...]

[...] I can see your potentials and your abilities and your promise—and you could see your own potentials and promise if you would open your inner eyes, if you would look within yourselves. [...]

[...] Because you are at this level of development, you are ready and able to use your abilities more. [...]

[...] These abilities are abilities that are your own. [...]

[...] If I had all the abilities that you think I have, I would have his typewriter working for him automatically all the time. [...]

(To Nadine.) It often occurs that those who have strong healing abilities focus upon illness and sickness and are obsessed with it in the same way that many ministers, given to thoughts of good and God, are obsessed with the idea of the devil and evil. So you also have strong healing abilities but these, so far in your personal life, have been latent because of your fear and your obsession in the other direction. If you will forgive me, it is somewhat like a woman with very earthly desires, but strong abilities in that line, who rigorously refuses to use them and dwells instead on thoughts of their evil, holding them back simply because she realizes they are so strong. In your own personal life you are afraid to use your abilities of this healing. [...]

Now, to some extent, all of you take advantage of these abilities or you would not have physical bodies to begin with. [...] But when you cannot do this for yourself, and when your own misconceptions hold you back from using your own abilities, then there are others who can reawaken your own energies and direct them to your advantage; who can meet you and speak with you when you are in more auspicious states than the one you usually call conscious— When you are at your most creative and alert, in other words, when you are asleep. [...]

(To Rachel) The one over here on the couch who winks at me in such an infamous manner, you also have healing abilities. [...] Now these are abilities you can learn to use and develop. [...]

[...] And therefore, because I tell you that you can heal yourself, I also tell you that there are some difficulties in the way, and those difficulties are those ideas that you have in your heads that prevent you from using your own abilities. [...]

[...] Any work of fiction in which his abilities were at all fulfilled would have brought him to this point, and any endeavor such as the psychic work, which was adopted. In other words, for the personality to use its abilities fully that challenge would have had to be faced in every instance but the poetry.

The crisis would have developed on the condition that Ruburt tried to use and develop his spontaneous and intuitive abilities on an adult basis. [...]

[...] To use his abilities fully both had to operate smoothly and simultaneously, and give each other freedom and elbow room. [...]

His abilities, to be used fully, would inevitably have led him to such a crisis point, or better to such a challenge. [...]

To some extent or another you chose abilities ahead of time that would at least partially meet conflict with the society in which you were born. Your abilities as an artist, for example, were not those relished by mothers in their male offspring. [...]

When you tie these abilities to feelings of strong responsibility, serious work, too much, you limit them to whatever degree, and you limit your own expression of them. [...] The playful abilities find themselves in straightjackets. [...]

[...] Your abilities would meet some conflict in terms of religious, sexual, and social beliefs. [...]

[...] This gave necessary periods of solitude, and helped at one time to channel his abilities. [...]

They did not encourage you to use your own abilities and look within yourself. So now I encourage you to look within yourself and to use your abilities, both intuitional abilities and intellectual abilities. [...]

Now you believe that you are using your intellectual abilities, but you have only begun to use them. You have not begun to use your intuitional abilities to anything like their true extent. [...]

The material itself is cleverly—if you will forgive the term—cleverly executed so that as you grapple to understand it you are already beginning to use abilities beyond those that you take for granted. [...]

[...] It demands that you intellectually and intuitively expand—it demands that you use your abilities. [...]

In somewhat the same way, a strong belief in a particular ability generated in the present will reach into the past and effect whatever changes would have had to occur there (with gestures) in order to now make the ability apparent.

In daily practical experience, try to concentrate for a while upon seemingly subordinate abilities, ones that you think of as latent. If you do so consistently, using your imagination and will, then those abilities will become prominent in your present. [...]

[...] The present belief activates “latent” abilities within each person.¹

This is not meant to dilute the function or natural abilities of reasoning awareness, for its powers allow you to focus experience in a highly specific manner, and to direct energy with great purposeful attention. [...]

As you read this book, the words are meant to release your own intuitional abilities. [...] There is the freedom to understand your own reality, to develop your abilities further, and to feel more deeply the nature of your own existence as a part of All That Is.

[...] There never was any real division, but only a seeming one in which you played various roles, developed different abilities, learned to create in new and diverse ways. [...]

[...] The information, experience, and abilities are at your fingertips. [...]

[...] The process of learning such information necessarily adds to the development and abilities of the teacher. [...]

[...] He determined to use those abilities.

[...] That approach had not worked with Ruburt’s mother, who recognized Ruburt’s writing ability at least, and tried to encourage it. [...]

The abilities quickly grew out of any conventional surroundings. [...]

[...] The abilities were put to the purpose of protecting him from the hostile world, serving as economic sustenance. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s psychic abilities, with my help, enable him to fulfill and develop his creative writing abilities. [...]

Part of our message of course involves the use of all abilities, and Ruburt’s own writing ones serve to make that point. His abilities were not to be merged or to disappear, perhaps, into psychic work in those terms.

[...] Timothy Foote was very interested in Jane’s abilities, and said he would like to return for a session with a recorder. [...]

It is true that all spring from the same source—creativity—but the divisions between his personality’s use of those abilities, and my use of them, was not to be broken down. [...]