“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The first is to paint a portrait of a person whom you know, trying to portray the essence of that person, their deepest agonies and highest joys, their highest capabilities and fears of failure. [...]

[...] You are successes, whether or not you insist upon thinking of yourselves sometimes as failures.

[...] Do not feel hopeless, and do not feel that you are failures. [...]

[...] Even then, however, dream events are so multidimensional that this attempt is often a failure. [...]

The gift brings a responsibility, and many of you are tempted to congratulate yourselves on the successes of your lives, and blame God, fate, and society for your failures. [...]

[...] But since Jane did not mention the subject John considered his efforts a failure, for whatever reason.

[...] The act of rejection in itself is detrimental and doomed to failure.

[...] Your successes and your failures alike, you have yourselves created. [...]

[...] The charge had so built up that if you had one bad afternoon painting, he saw this as a sign of complete failure on your part; and he did the same with his own work.

(10:32.) Therefore it creates varieties of conditions in which to operate, and sets itself challenges, some doomed to failure in your terms, at least initially, because it must first create the conditions which will bring new creations about. [...]

An illness is a failure to solve a mental or psychological problem in the correct manner. [...]

(Pause.) Because of his beliefs he considered himself somewhat of a failure, and the rich, evocative nature of his own stories did not meet with the approval of his academically attuned mind. [...]

[...] For tonight, then, I wanted a session with answers in it, so that we could try again in spite of past failures. [...]

In all respects there must be complete honesty here, and conditions should be reached where there is no fear of ridicule on Ruburt’s part, or fear of lack of successful data, or failure.

(Eventually, and very reluctantly, since I considered it a sign of a major failure, I ended up carrying her physically from the john to her chair—rather awkwardly but not with as much trouble as I’d anticipated, yet also feeling a bit of a strain in my lower back. [...]

(Once again Jane considered the test a failure, and attributed it to her being upset today. [...]

It is as if you were reading a history book that was devoted only to the failures, cruelties and errors of the race, ignoring all of its accomplishments. [...]

In his other main concern, “getting better,” he looks back upon past failures, and projects impediments into the future. [...]

[...] You did not project failure into the future, but success. [...]

[...] We have not tried to hold another seance, partly because of time limitations, partly because of a fear of failure [we imagine], and partly because we want to learn more about such things from Seth before we try again.)