“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In the past, with few exceptions, attempts have been made to change the external situation. I have told you that if you look around you and do not like the world that you see, then it is yourselves individually and en masse that you must change. For this is the only way that change will be effected. And if your generation or any generation would ever effect a change—this is the only way change will be effected.

What I am telling you has been told throughout the centuries and the people have not listened. It is up to you now (Sue and Ned) whether or not you listen. It is wrong to curse a flower, and it is wrong to curse any man. And it is wrong not to hold any man in honor and it is wrong to ridicule any man. You honor yourselves. You see within yourselves the spirit of eternal vitality, and you honor it and you treat yourselves in that manner as gods. If you do not do this, then you destroy all that you touch. And you honor each other individual also, because in him is the spark of eternal vitality.

I speak here because yours is the opportunity and yours is the time. Do not fall into the old ways that will lead you precisely into the world that you fear.

Not in your physical time, but within the next hundred years, that time may come... (phrase omitted)... but when it comes, and if it comes soon it will come as a miracle. For it will come when every man realizes that killing is wrong, and when every young man in every country refuses to go to war, and when he refuses to curse any man or any flower. You do not defend any idea with violence. With violence you kill an idea.