“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, you were early given the idea that a portion of your personality was guilty and therefore you were relieved when you were told that there were methods whereby you could receive this guilt. You accepted, for example, the penances and so forth because as a child, given the idea of guilt, you wondered what punishment would befall you.

When you felt you had done enough penance, you did not know how to deal with the part of you you thought you had left. You were so used to thinking of yourself as guilty, and here you had a new sense to deal with. You were like a child with a new toy, and how could it be as good as you supposed and where was the hidden blemish, and so you have been looking for the hidden blemish. In the back of your mind also you wonder if you haven’t done enough penance, and so you worry and stew. You are making progress, however. You are looking inward and you are accepting the responsibility for yourself and your own development.

(To Derek Pearson.) Now, I did not mean to ignore you, and I give you my most hearty welcome. I was a young man and my hair was longer than yours, but I wore lace about mine. At other times my style was rather different but when my hair was worn somewhat in the style of yours, then I wore more sporty attire to go along with it.

That, I am afraid, you will have to answer for yourself. I would, for myself, answer in the affirmative. There are better things you can use this state for. There is no reason to be afraid. Your own face may not have been beautiful, but it was your own.