“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, I will tell you. In many ways, you are indeed children. And because you do not understand the truths and have not reached or understood the connections, it does not mean that the truths do not exist. And you must work towards them and use your mind to do so. It will not lead you astray. You can trust it—it will help you arrive at some questions.

I have told you time and time again, in class, and I tell you all again—and Ruburt has told you: you form your own reality. You form the world that you know and you form your own images. And there is no justification for violence. Now, the words sound simple. None of you has fully accepted them except as they apply to others. You must apply them to yourself. You must look within yourself and then apply these truths and learn from them. They are not theoretical ideas. They are realities.

You operate in accordance with these truths whether you realize it or not. It is not enough to listen—you must look within yourself. It is not enough to play games. It is not enough to squint at yourself—to look at one motivation—to accept partially.

There are no exceptions to this rule. Your successes and your failures alike, you have yourselves created. If you would but understand, this is the truth that would make you free.

Now, I speak to you somewhat harshly, and yet all of you know that what I say is true. You must look inward and apply these truths. It does no good to look outward and apply them to others. You must take the first step and take the responsibility for yourself and then you have the freedom to change it. If you do not accept the responsibility, then you do not have the power to change. And the power to change is within you.

I have lived through many reincarnations and faced these problems and I was not free until I realized this basic truth.

You will not find truth neatly wrapped. You will not find it in the shelves of some store—and you will not find it chocolate-coated. Now, welcome to you (Oliver F). I am sorry that you came in on a night when I am not at my jovial best. But if I do not call you to line, who else will call you to line? You are very poor at calling yourselves to line.

Remember that you only perceive a portion of your own reality. And remember that you only perceive a portion of my reality. Do you realize the implications if you make no effort to realize your own reality and to probe into it and to explore it and understand it? Then how do you think you can understand the nature of reality if you do not make an attempt to see the truths that are within yourself? Then why do you expect other truths to be given to you?

Words are but symbols! Words are not truths. You must seek through the words for the reality that they represent. And you must seek within yourselves for the reality that you represent. There is no security in ignorance—there is only fear.

The other personality with which you are familiar, which speaks through Ruburt, that personality seems very remote from you. It seems very different from me. This represents the distance that you have to travel—the inward distance. The vastness of the vision is within you, the road is within yourself, the truths are within yourself.

When the child does not understand what you are saying, you tell him again and again and you tell him in different ways. You realize that the child must understand the truths. You explain the truths as you know them, the best that you can. You tell stories and parables. And you speak in words that are familiar and you use baby talk when necessary. Baby talk in that you do not speak exactly as you would speak to an adult. And the baby talk is not obvious.

Truths must be translated so that you can understand them. And I must appear to you, then, as a translation of what I am.