“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It would be silly for a violet to wonder why it was not a grape. You have certain natures, then, that are your own. It is somewhat beside the point to wonder why your natures are as they are. You have always been loners, in reincarnational terms and otherwise.

Because of your natures, to a far greater extent than most, you and Ruburt have strayed in such a fashion. Because of your natures, you are seeking answers to the most difficult problems of life and death alike, on your own, so to speak. This is because your natures require it. You want to do it. At the same time you provide a new group of suggestions, an alternate way for others. In the meantime, however, you have no cozy categories in which to place your experience.

It is highly important that you do keep up your communications with each other, and that you begin each day in one way or another by stating your faith in the body’s processes. This would take but a few moments. It is also important, now, that you concentrate upon your own creative works, both of you—Ruburt particularly, so that he takes his mind off of his body, and focuses elsewhere. Since you are doing this alone, more or less, it is natural to be upset at times, but when your confidence is greater than your doubts, Ruburt always improves.

(10:56.) These will naturally even out. You can trust those inclinations. They will be built upon your own inner knowledge and your feelings about your state at the time, and your inner knowledge about people at the door.

When you go against those feelings you cannot be satisfied with any decision. There are issues involved that you are unconsciously aware of—concerning, say, the people. The knowledge will merge with your own conscious feelings at the time. You are tinged by conventional ideas and judgments—natural enough, but they often contradict your intuitive feelings, and make you act counter to them.

Please remember that many people get in physical difficulty. They are indeed the norm rather than the exception. People who are not questioning necessarily the nature of life or of reality, creative people, unimaginative people, dumb people, athletes—all get in physical difficulties. What I am saying is that questioning the nature of reality does not cause physical difficulties per se. You cannot justifiably say, then “Had we not taken this route, everything would have been hunky-dory (loudly).” You should know better than that.

The career would have fallen into conventional pattern for money’s sake. Your understanding, stretched somewhat by earlier ideas, would have fallen backward, so that you ever strained against it. You would have had physical difficulties of quite important natures.