“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

So do not think you are being spiritual when you are being long-faced—and do not think you are being spiritual when you berate yourself for your sins. The seasons within your system come and go. The sun falls upon your face whether you think you are a sinner or a saint. The vitality of the universe is creativity and joy and love and that is spirituality. And that is what I shall tell the readers of my book.

So do not think you are being spiritual when you are being long-faced, and do not think you are being spiritual when you berate yourself for your sins. [...]

When you berate yourself for your sins, then you do not realize what joy is. [...] Do you berate a flower that has one crooked stem? [...]

[...] You berate yourself on the one hand for an intellect that it seems to you separates you from immediate emotional contact with painting and with others. At the same time, of course, you would certainly berate a Van Gogh for his overly emotional behavior.

With some variations, the same kind of “sudden conversion” can occur when a person who has berated religious concepts and beliefs suddenly does a double-take of a different kind, ending up as a twice-born Christian.

[...] So do not berate that ego.

[...] Later you might see that many of your own decisions or actions that once appeared disadvantageous, and for which you berated yourself, were in fact the very ones that helped bring your own abilities to your attention.

[...] It is just as useless to berate your environment or your experience in it as it is to deride your body, for the same reasons.

[...] He should concentrate his attention upon those periods, rather than concentrating upon the periods when he is blue or upset, and berating himself for those reactions.

[...] He berates himself for not being able to help you more in the carrying of the bags, and in any ordinary chores with which he would normally assist you. [...]

[...] If you find that you are berating yourself because of something you did yesterday, or ten years ago, you are not being virtuous. [...]

[...] Nor should he berate himself, for a method is a learning process, and from it he has indeed learned much. [...]

[...] At one time or another you do not agree, or approve, of either set, and so you are always berating yourself about being different than you are.

[...] He does not berate himself because he cannot yet achieve greater weights. [...]

[...] I berated myself at times, thinking that even my Irish grandmother would have found spirits in the living room rather hard to take—and I used to think she was superstitious! [...]

Now: For these reasons I have not wanted you to put too much strain upon Adam, to expect him to be this other personality, or to berate him by comparing him to such another personality. [...]

[...] I didn’t berate Jane to open up more psychically. [...]