“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

On the other hand, he becomes upset if people cannot make truth work in literal terms. He is very touchy on that point, and yet he becomes very angry if people try to make truth too practical. Why can’t truth make people want to live? Why can’t truth be used as a prescription? The suicide story bothered him simply because it reminded him of Will (Ives), who had attended classes, and of a friend of Venice’s, who committed suicide many years ago, although a session was held for her.

The story in the paper rearoused those old conflicts. But truth involves insights of a most peculiar kind, for they cannot indeed be truly specified, and the more specific you try to make them the more you distort them, or the more you dilute their original power. You make your own reality. You cannot force an individual to live, nor can you force him to die, through the use of the truth. One and one is two—that is a fact in your world, and you can use that fact in millions of ways, but it involves no truth.