“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You form or create your lows. Sometimes you choose them for purposes of growth. Other times, they are the results of your own ignorance at any given point and basically unnecessary. If you are in the habit, for example, of deep negative thought then you will attract to yourself negative feelings and experience deep depression. Now, if you learn from these, then from your standpoint, this is a point of growth and you progress. But many people do not learn for some time, in your terms, and continue in such periods when they are not necessary.

Now, in terms of growth and development and speaking now simply to get the idea across, theoretically, you are working toward a time when the you that you now know will be aware of the entire personality and accept it as your identity. The whole personality is not like some superself in which you are lost, in which the identity that you know is gone. You must simply accept the fact for now until your own experience begins to prove it more and more. That the inner identity, that you, is far more than you presently realize, and the best way to work toward such realization is to accept the self that your are now, as you are. To feel the movement of the spontaneous self.

([Joel:] “I love it when you say, what blessings I have to give, I give you. It has gotten to the point now where, I get up there and I am already to say, ‘God bless you’ at the end of the service, and I’m almost ready to say  ‘such blessings as I have to give’ and I really have begun to see now, how absurd the whole practice, not that specifically, but the whole rigmarole had been over the years. That’s spontaneous growth, isn’t it?”)