“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The past “failures” seemed indisputable evidence.

I realize your predicament, so do not think I am being unfeeling; and yet, my dear friends, on other levels those failures were considered successes. [...]

[...] Everyone who feels brokenhearted does not die of heart failure, for example. [...]

[...] Actually, our forces hadn’t come close to reaching the prisoners: Responsible were mechanical failures and two dust storms that the American helicopters had to struggle through before joining a group of transport planes at a remote airfield, code-named Desert One, in central Iran. [...]

At this time Jane and I think the missions failure is a blessing: Based upon our limited knowledge of the factors involved, we do not see how it could have succeeded. [...]

[...] The failure of our rescue mission represents another learning step as we grapple with some of the “modern” convolutions of religious and secular forces. [...]

[...] On examination of her own thoughts and beliefs, she might well discover that she was so frightened of not achieving her own goals that she actually encouraged her husband’s alcoholism, so that she would not have to face her own “failure.”

[...] Each, say, failure, or disappointment, or unresolved problem that results in suffering, becomes a part of the world’s experience: This way or that way does not work, or this way or that way has been tried, with poor results. So in that way even weaknesses or failures of suffering are resolved, or rather redeemed as adjustments are made in the light of those data.

[...] If he says, now, “I can get up easily,” and then he does not in the next instant, then he thinks he is faced with a new failure.

[...] Strong feelings of failure. [...]

[...] It never admitted the possibility of failure, but only worked toward success.

Now, to the other portion of the personality however, success was failure. [...]

[...] Ruburt must have his failure, and relative poverty, or he fears destruction.

He is indeed as blessed as the animals, however, and his failures are the results of his lack of understanding. [...]

Collect books of man’s failures. [...]

[...] His works are flawed — but they are the flawed apprentice works of a genius artist in the making, whose failures are indeed momentous and grotesque only in the light of his sensed genius, which ever leads him and directs him onward.

[...] In the past the balance of success versus failure in his eyes was so tipped at the failure end that he took but a mere breather of relief, then plunged ahead again with the same desperation. [...]

(Humorously again:) You do not consider a dream as a success or a failure. If the dream ends in a moment of destruction you do not consider the dream a failure. In the overall then, when I told you that the planet was dispensable, I meant it somewhat in those terms, for while in your reality you are vulnerable, and agony is real, still it is not the whole reality, and success and failure have no meaning in those (underlined) terms.

[...] Yet both of you should realize that those failures still give you an overall performance that few people can achieve, in terms of the quality and overall endurance.

Often Ruburt’s failures would still be successes by other standards. [...]

[...] It helps bring about Ruburt’s greatest accomplishments, and yet at the same time, overemphasized, it can become a source of failures.

For some time he has identified himself with the dream book, and projected his own problems upon it so that it bore the brunt, so to speak; and if it was a failure, then he was a failure and in very definite terms.

[...] We think such alternate sources should be pursued even if they cost more in economic terms than nuclear power, either initially or continually, for surely none of them could produce the horrendous results — and enormous costs — that would follow even one massive failure at a nuclear power plant.

[...] There may never be, and failure in these areas alone could ultimately dictate the demise of the entire nuclear endeavor for any peaceful (or even military) use at all.

[...] With her successes and failures Jane leads the way for many, even while she and I keep trying to learn more. [...]

(“The pendulum repeated my insight of a couple of days ago—one that may be very important: that all of my upsets over the years, the stomach, the side, the groin, the shoulder—the whole bunch—stem from my consistent feeling that I’m a failure in life, that I don’t contribute enough, that I don’t help Jane enough, that I haven’t really made it as an artist or as a writer.

When you pursue new avenues, there are no such easy ways to assess success or failure (intently). [...]

Next to that kind of achievement, conventional ideas of success or failure are literally ludicrous in basic terms, though I understand the hold that cultural beliefs can still have upon you.

He learns from failure as well as success. [...]

In this case they were given another chance, having the unconscious knowledge not only of their failure, but the reasons behind it. [...]

[...] Scary stories abound about our nuclear dilemmas, ranging from tales of poorly designed plants, control rooms, and instruments, to the failure to promptly report potentially serious accidents, to the fact that in 1978 every one of the country’s more than 70 nuclear power plants had at least one unexpected shutdown because of procedural errors, mechanical failures, or both. [...]

[...] It seems that through a combination of mechanical failures and human error, unit 2, one of the plant’s two nuclear reactors, overheated and discharged radioactive water into the river, and began releasing small amounts of radioactive gasses into the atmosphere. [...]

(Another question I’d meant to ask but forgot to list, had to do with our failure to do certain things, regardless of how often Seth mentioned them: viz.—using the hot towels, trying for the library, etc. [...]

[...] No man’s knowledge will alone save him from heart failure, or heart difficulties, if such knowledge is not backed up by comprehensions of an entirely different order.

[...] You think that because there have been failures in the past, failures are inevitable. [...]