“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You can hear me, and I will see to it that you do. [...] Now you do not trust the inner self to do these things, and you must learn to accept the inner ancient wisdom that is your own. [...]

[...] You know that it is, but you must think of what noise represents to you, and what it is that you do not want to hear, and why at this particular time you do not want to hear it. [...]

[...] I will let Ruburt do it, however, because I do not want to huff and puff and blow the roof down. [...]

I will bid you all good evening, but before I do I want you all to know that every teacher, myself included, Edgar, has private projects in which they are very interested and mine happens to be probabilities. Therefore, when you are doing your little experiments in class other teachings are being given to you at the same time that will allow you to more easily contact your probable selves. [...]

[...] There was the feeling, the inner fear that you do not have freedom of motion in the economic or professional sphere—the fear, quite simply, that you were not going to make it. Some of this has to do with the symbolism you have attached subconsciously to the age of 40, and you see yourself coming closer to it. Some has to do with your assessment of your position within the firm, with your assessment of what you would get outside the firm should you leave it.

You do not want to accept the basic fear of immobility and lack of motion. [...] You recognize it but you do not know what to do about it, and this frightens you further. [...]

[...] Do not tell yourself you are feeling fine when you hurt; I do not mean this. [...] You are free to do so, and you should remind yourself of this fequently, for you doubted your ability to handle the problems. [...]

(To John:) You do not feel free to move. Symbolically you do not feel that you have freedom of motion, and you are expressing this through the body mechanism. [...]

You do not have to be afraid of going along with what these sounds represent. [...] This is basically behind your reaction, having to do with your early life. [...]

[...] The right ear, the wrong ear, bothers you for you do not want to hear what you consider the bad sounds. [...] Do you see the connection?

One note: Within your system sounds do form structures, that your eyes do not perceive. [...]

[...] (Smile.) I do not have birthdays now, but I have had many. I had many death days, but I do not have those now either.

Now, bad vibrations come from within the self, as do good ones. [...] Therefore, listen to your own inner voice and follow your way, but do not trust those who tell you that good vibrations are here with A and B and C and bad vibrations are with E, F, G and H, for the energy that forms All That Is is within each. [...] Use your abilities to find out your reality but do not deprive another of his reality and do not allow yourself to become impressed. Do you follow me? [...]

[...] Do not equate turmoil with excitement and peace with turmoil for these are also conventional habits of thought that do not necessarily apply. Traveling can be external, but you can travel around the world and go nowhere and you can sit in your chair and travel beyond the universe, so do not be taken in by conventional habits of thought regardless of which conventions the patterns follow. [...] Do you follow me? [...]

[...] They can tell you, to some extent, much that you do not know, but unless they really know who and what they are individually, they can lead you astray. [...] They are free with their energy, but they use it as a fine jeweled rope so that their force can be so fascinating to you that you do not realize that you are being bound about the neck. [...]

[...] For now, be satisfied with that and do not try too hard. [...] Now, I will give you some information on the subject, though it is too late this evening, and if you want some specific exercises that you personally can use, I do not know that you will smell as sweet as a rose on your return, but we will see to it that you get the exercises. [...]

I do indeed. [...] Do not your ideas already leap over the fences and the fields? And do you not already feel hampered within the environment in which you have spent so much time? [...] You do not need to answer.

[...] use them joyfully and gladly and well but do not identify with them for they are not you. [...] And by journeying inward I do not mean a quick and hasty and apologetic trip to your child memories. I do not mean an attempt to find out why you are frightened of spiders or have boils on your arm. [...]

[...] If you still do not realize that you create the reality that you know, then you return and again you learn to manipulate and again and again you see the results of your own inner reality as you meet it objectified. [...] And then you can continue, you can continue to enlarge the scope of your understanding and consciousness...and as you do this, you take on a more conscious awareness of your responsibility. [...]

[...] and you do not need to answer it now. You do not need to answer it at any time, to me.... [...]

When I come in this class I do so so that you realize the knowledge that is in the material comes through a personality, and that I am not some “ditto.” [...] Indeed, I do not find it remarkable that you consider me a personality since, indeed that is what I am. Nor do I find it remarkable that you were not frightened. I do not consider myself a frightening phenomenon. [...]

I have been here, as Ruburt knows well, through your class this evening, and he has given me permission, for I would not dare peek into this class unless he told me that I could do so. [...] We do, however, have a very good relationship, as I’m sure you know by now. [...] While I do not follow you, tippety-toe, behind you to your school halls and your hallowed bank corridors, nevertheless I am aware, generally, of your activities, and I know when you are reading my material. [...]

[...] I cannot do this for you, and no one can do it for you, and no one can make you do it before you yourself are ready to look into the meaning of your own existence and your own personality. [...]

[...] It goes forth from you and you do not realize consciously how it is going forth and what it is doing. [...] Do not be afraid of vitality nor of your own feeling. [...]

I do, indeed. [...] Do not your ideas already leap over the fences and the fields? And do you not already feel hampered within the environment in which you have spent so much time? [...] You do not need to answer. [...]

[...] And by journeying inward I do not mean a quick and hasty and apologetic trip to your child memories. I do not mean an attempt to find out why you are frightened of spiders or have boils on your arm. [...]

[...] My question is this—and you do not need to answer it now. You do not need to answer it at any time, to me. [...]

[...] You think that you are blind and so you do not see. [...] To do this, follow the directions that I have given, but also get in the habit of looking about you morning, noon and night—and realizing that there is more within every environment than each small room that you see. [...]

Now I do suggest that our friend contact Edwards, and Ruburt can explain the reasons rather than taking session time to do so. [...] They have a bedside manner, you see, that I unfortunately seem to lack. (Half humorously.) They do contact other layers of the personality, with explanations that are vital. They do not love any less than I, but they are more patient. [...]

[...] You are quarreling, and in so doing you cut yourself off from the joy and vitality that do make life worthwhile living. [...] You forget what you do have—physical health and vitality. [...]

[...] You do not realize now, you do not let yourself realize, the beauty and the complicated reality of your being. You do not let yourself realize the spontaneity and joyful burst that is your inner self, that results in this present human personality that you call yourself. [...]

[...] You have a fine, strong and worthwhile purpose, but you will not fulfill it well while you rail against what you do not have, and ignore the abilities and gifts and blessings that you do have.

Do not compare yourselves with people in the so-called work-a-day world. [...] Your challenges, rewards, interests and ways of life do not match. [...] On the other hand, you do have that freedom with time that others do not possess, and it is one that you overlook.

[...] You do chores often when you feel like working, and often when there is no real necessity to do them. [...] On the other hand, you often work when you do not feel like it, but need other refreshment, simply because of course you have already tired yourself through the ensuing dilemmas.

Then you do not resent the afternoon rackets, but accept neighborhood noises as the world’s activity, and it becomes—though you will not believe me—a refreshing and needed counterpoint. Otherwise you find yourselves never fully pleased with what you are doing while you are doing it, and caught up in circles of resentment. [...]

You would not go shopping or do any chores you did not absolutely need to do. [...]

([Kyle:] “You do tend to dominate. You get up there and say do this and this and you are doing well, and you are doing okay, and certainly that does put a certain attitude in people.”)

[...] All probable systems do not have reincarnational existences. Some do and some do not, so that these exist only here, as far as you are concerned for the moment. [...]

(To Kyle.) You see that I do not always take the floor. You are lucky I do not use parliamentary procedures. [...]

And now I will do the unthinkable and I will call a class break and you can all tell Ruburt that it will do him good for a change and I hope it gives him a laugh. [...]

(I added that the more spontaneous she was about doing what she wanted at any given time—in other words, following her natural impulses—the more writing and painting she’d find herself able to do. As Seth remarked in a recent session, the relaxed muscle is able to do far more than the tense one, or words to that effect.

When he thinks that he must do such and such, must prove his worth by sitting at his desk, then he lays a heavy hand upon those same impulses. He is afraid of doing anything else. [...] So do his normal physical ones. [...]

(9:10.) A private note: what you want to do, ideally speaking, is the best thing to do.

[...] They all added up to a steady barrage of self-criticism and fear of not writing, of perhaps doing the dishes instead, or cleaning the house, of making more work for me, of time spent answering the mail—whatever it might be. [...]

[...] Do you follow me? Therefore, check the material for you will not feel happy unless you do, and then apply what I have told you. [...] If you demand that as part of the validity of what you are getting, then you will receive it, but do not rush. [...] Do you follow me? [...]

[...] Do not think: “this could be true, but it is fantasy.” [...] They do not lie in a Bill. They do not lie in a Seth. [...]

[...] It would do you all good. You would not stand for it, but it would do you good. [...]

[...] For what you do today affects not only the future, in your terms, but also the past. [...] Now if you think of time as a line, I do not only mean that time is open-ended at either side, you see, for time cannot be considered as a single line. [...]

[...] You simply do not think that you do and you do not connect your actions today with the information that you will perceive tomorrow and so your own reactions escape you. [...]

Now the future, in your terms, to that extent affected the present but this is something that you all do all of the time. You must remember that there are no divisions between past, future, and present and that you do not react simply to the present. [...]

Now I am not trying to tell you what to do, I am trying to release the portion of you that knows playfully what to do. [...]

[...] You see, I want you to use the tools and abilities that you have and the intellect is one of them, but I do not want you to concentrate so intently upon using one tool that you forget the others. And I am telling you this because I do not want you to so intellectualize your present experiences that you become overly concerned and lose their spontaneity. [...]

[...] The books are being read, though you do not go on tours. You do not play any of the games, and you do not have a healthy give-and-take with that society. [...]

[...] On June 22 the pendulum told me that my stomach bothers me not because I don’t spend enough time painting, but because I feel guilty at spending the time I do, in view of all the other work with Jane that I feel I should be doing: working on sessions, “Unknown” Reality, etc.

(3. A: Why do we attract the kind of unannounced visitors that we do? [...]

[...] [This decision leaves Jane free to do fresh creative work—whatever she wants to do. [...]

[...] Now you do not properly listen to what I say and if the proofreaders were reading that sentence they would change it to “you do not listen properly to what I say,” but I mean you do not properly listen and there is indeed a difference. [...] But if you want to know what we are doing with the Sumari language, my dear cousin of Richelieu, we are taking away your ball and that is why you all feel so uneasy. And suspense is the spice of life, so do not go looking for all the answers in one moment. [...] It quickens your psychic blood and makes you think on your own and it makes you wonder why you do things. [...] Why do you do what you do? [...]

[...] I just said I do not play favorites. Now you knew what you were supposed to do last week and it took you a good two hours to do it and now you want a medal. [...]

[...] Some Sumari, and as you can all see I am closing Ruburt’s eyes so I am sure no one knows to whom I am speaking, do they Joseph? [...] Now I do not want to tell you all the answers to the Sumari development, for some of the answers you are to find out for yourselves and some of the answers cannot happen unless you discover them for yourselves. [...]

[...] Now who else do you know, except those two people (Jane and Rob), who would sit for one solid hour conversing in a language they do not understand? [...]

Do you think that the Son of God could be contained in one frame? Now, you have been given the free will because the spirit of Christ is within you, this does not mean that you do not have free will. The spirit of Christ gives you the life to do with it what you choose. [...]

[...] Now, I do indeed give you my heartiest regards and wishes, and were it not for Ruburt’s wishes and the lateness of the hour and his concerns about the neighbors, I would continue. [...] I do admit my voice, as it came through here, may not be as melodious. [...] Nevertheless, there is a point here that my friend Ruburt would do well to take to mind. [...]

You are doing well as a lecturer of note. See that you do not make any errors or I will tap you on the shoulder. [...]

[...] As long as you do your work and study, I am jovial. There is always a purpose behind what I say and behind what I do. [...]

[...] You do not give energy to them, nor look for them. [...] You do not add reality, physical reality then, to improvements as they first show—you do not nurse them expectantly as you would a seed. You concentrate on the part of the plant that is not doing as well.

[...] (Pause.) Concentration should not be upon feeling well enough in the morning to do something he wants to do. It should be upon the thing he wants to do, and away from the physical condition. [...]

I suggest however that you continue your own prayer periods, as you have been doing them. [...] Do not give them extra energy through concentration.

[...] If you find yourselves doing this you would be better to drop any emphasis on health specifically. Do you follow me?

[...] I suggest that the two of you do just that. Such advantages do not exist for large groups of people. You force upon yourselves greater limitations that you do not need.

[...] You do not have to wait for example until this book is done. Even small changes in your habitual ways of doing things will initiate further feelings of freedom, and let you see that many of your taken-for-granted timely actions are highly ritualized.

What you told Ruburt earlier of course does apply, but there are freedoms now of which you are unaware, so do not concentrate on the limitations, while at the same time do try to rid yourself of them by concentrating upon immediate possible freedoms.

[...] You have the freedom to add varieties to your schedules, to alter some of the time in which you work, but you do not take advantage of that freedom.

[...] You do not solve it by standing in front of it with your arms crossed and closing your eyes and saying, “Surely the solution must be fearful.” Now again, if our Lady from Florence did not have the ability to look inward, I would not try to force her to do so. But you do have the ability. [...]

[...] And may I ask you (Brad) in all seriousness, dear friend, who—who do you think you are to refuse to use the strength which has been given to you. And why do you believe that the energy of the universe which flows through frog and tree—does not flow also through your own being—or to refuse to use this tremendous energy because you feel you are unworthy. [...] Therefore, do not look to another for help—for the help is there and available for you to use. [...]

[...] It does you no good for me to come here and give you a symbolic pat on the back, and say, “My chickadees, fly away—you are doing well!”—not when you are not doing well. [...]

You do, indeed, and all of you do! [...]

[...] Why do you think you can keep track of your entity or of a god? Even your thoughts are created and they affect realities of which you do not know. Your thoughts have electromagnetic realities in dimensions that you do not even perceive. Your dreams are realities in dimensions that you do not now perceive. Your entities have realities and dimensions that you do not perceive. [...]

[...] However, I hope to reinforce your inner knowledge that you do have the ability to make decisions, and good ones. [...] But your inner problem does not have to do with work, but why you did not find work in the past. It does not have to do with your marriage. It has to do with those needs of yours that were satisfied within that marriage. [...]

[...] With what power do you invest him that he should know better than you the feelings that are within your own heart? And why do you find it so difficult to realize what those feelings are? [...]

Now I will tell you something to do. [...] This is what I want you to do: I want you to make a list of your good points, of your abilities. [...]