“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Whenever you seek from others the answers to problems, then you take it for granted that within yourself there is no greater strength. And each time you accept answers from others you reinforce the attitude that you do not have the knowledge within yourself to find the answers. And, therefore, such answers easily given do not help you in the long run.

I have told you and I have told each of you here—that you are basically no different than I am. You are a consciousness in your time—dwelling within flesh. Presently, I have no body with which to manipulate in your physical system. And yet, regardless of that fact, each of you knows me well—you feel this vitality. And as I have said time and time again—such demonstrations should show you, since they are coming through Ruburt, that this energy is a portion of the energy that is your own—you have as much energy as I have—you have as much energy available to you as Ruburt has available to him. You each have as much energy within each of you as is being shown now in this room. My message is to use your own energy—to open yourself so that it can be known through you. The answers that you want reside within you. They will sweep out as easily and as clearly as air... if you let them! I repeat again: physically, Ruburt dwells within the same world as each of you. He has access to no more energy than you each possess! Then use your own energy! When you finally feel what I am saying, then you will ride above your own energy!

Now. If you have any questions I will answer them. I will see that you have the first copies of my book. Now I will be here for a social time.

(What Seth said was repeated to Jane—ending with the fact that he would be here for a “social time.”)

The whole self gives you help at times. For within you is the knowledge of your connection with the whole self. And you are never given a chore more difficult than your abilities.

One is to relate to your animals. For a brief time think of them as they are—unrelated to you. Imagine what it is like also to be a tree, to be a nail, and then to be an entirely different consciousness. Then after many trials, make an attempt at a bridge from their consciousness to the self that you think of as you. This will allow you some freedom.

([Brad:] “Up to the point of my early twenties I seemed to have had a purpose and a drive -and I think I was succeeding. And then all at once things disintegrated—coincidentally at the time I met my wife. Is it possible that a person can have such an effect on another?”)