“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Many individuals come into a world for the purpose of changing it for the better, and there is no more efficient way of doing that than by the promotion of ideas—for no exterior altered circumstances can ever be applied from without unless the inner foundations have been laid.

Exterior conditions can always be changed if you understand the principles of which I am speaking. [...]

[...] All of this is quite aside from the exterior energy crisis. [...]

[...] The exterior appearance is a replica of inner desire. [...]

[...] Each call gave me the opportunity to see how various people organized exterior reality according to inner politics. [...]

Ruburt’s books, of course, “came through” in the same fashion as do these sessions, for they follow the inclines of nature—that inner nature upon which the exterior world depends. [...]

[...] On the exterior you broke conventions, but you were still tainted by conventional ideas. [...]

[...] The exterior motion is obviously the result of inner connections that are now being released in the proper way.

[...] You looked for great order, to create in painting an ordered universe, to find perfection that ideally you felt should be in the exterior world, and yet was lacking. [...]

[...] There is little exterior similarity, however.

[...] It also implies, and of course, promotes, the direction of individual consciousness in an exterior fashion only. [...]

[...] The psychic and exterior environments are closely connected, and the correlations are available if you know where to look for them.

[...] Your thoughts have reality, but behind that statement is the apparently unrecognizable truth that your physical world is the exteriorization of your thoughts. [...]

[...] Quite without realizing it, your ego is a result of group consciousness, for example; the one consciousness that most directly faces the exterior world, is dependent upon the minute consciousness that resides within each living cell of your body; and as a rule you are only aware of one ego — at least at a time.

[...] Any exterior move that you make is made within the interior environment, within all the interior environments with which you are involved.

[...] In many cases it may appear as if exterior circumstances formed such inner shifts, changing the whole unifying structure of the personality, and shifting the personality into what would appear to be entirely uncharacteristic activities.

[...] Originally, and in your terms of time, it was precisely the imagination that in its own way set you apart from other creatures, enabling you to form realities in your mind that you could “later” exteriorize.

[...] You are extremely courageous in the exterior environment. [...]

The same applies to your thoughts, which if you bother to listen seem to come smoothly one after another, more or less following the sequence of exterior activity. [...]

(Then in the 754th session, on August 25, Seth gave an excellent dissertation on what he called “the stamp of identity” — explaining how the individual psychically marks certain exterior aspects of reality and “makes them his or her own,” in tune with personal inner symbols. [...]