“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, for openers: you are in your individual ways perfectionists. You judge yourselves too harshly. You think of yourselves as “you should be,” and so you are not satisfied with the people that you are.

Many of the most important art works have been done late in life, as you should know, and blossoming of the psyche cannot be given any age limit. You did not want buyers around, and you did not want the marketplace, and you wanted to progress at your own sweet rate—as you are. You did not want to settle for work of which others might approve, and get stuck at a certain level, even for money’s sake; but you wanted to pursue your art in private, and you wanted it colored by its own vaster canvas of psychic endeavor.

You both thought Ruburt should hide in the house. You were too proud to show your defects, because in your eyes such defects are so horrendous, and Ruburt’s condition becomes the symbol for all of man’s physical distress, in your eyes.