“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, in all of your minds there is still this conception that what you want to do automatically, because you want to do it, must be wrong because it is too easy. Now reality is easy. This universe is not maintained by conscious thought and if all of you together had to consciously decide ahead of time why the universe should exist, it would not exist, for you would not have made up your mind yet. Be lucky and thankful that the inner self does not have these hang-ups. You see how well I do with your vocabulary.

(To Florence.) Why is it that you trust everyone else? Anyone with any easy authority, myself included, rather than yourself? I do not want you to think that because I look in any particular direction I am speaking to anyone in particular. Now, you expect me to bawl you out in good terms because you have not been following the pathways within yourself.

Sensitivity sessions, however, offer you an easy outlet. They satisfy a portion of yourself that can say, “I have been to a sensitivity session and I have seen and felt and touched and I have learned, to some extent, to look within myself,” but you are very careful of where you look. And you are not looking in the correct places and you know it and you do not accept the excuses you are giving yourself. You know that I will verbalize them for you, but you do not need any verbalization, and when you are finished dillydallying about then I expect you to come back to class on a regular basis and to get to work.

One, however, was as a merchant in Germany in approximately 1830, the area now around Austria. You have been rather pedantic in several past lives and given in one particularized in Spain, as a priest, to severe attitudes and ideas that lead you, alternately, toward violence and peace. You believed so strongly in principle, for example, that you would do anything to uphold it and there was little leeway in your personality. You were not able to give and take and, to some extent, that rigidity is still present in your personality. However, you are learning now to mitigate to some extent. You are, in other words, opening up in those areas. You were involved in the Inquisition. Your ideas of good and evil were highly polarized. You are making strides in this existence although you have also encountered some difficulties along these lines for it is not easy for you to be flexible, psychically or spiritually. And you are learning to do this despite the difficulties that have been involved.