“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I suggest that first of all you ask yourselves what you really want, and what you really believe. (Amused:) I will tell you what you want, my dear friend: you want the books to sell very well, and the message to go out clearly to all. As long as you are not bothered, as long as you do not have to mix with fools—the same fools who compose the various psychological, scientific, or medical societies—the same fools whom you sometimes say do not bother contacting you as long as the Enquirer, that rag, does not annoy you for interviews, and as long as people are not personally affected enough to bother you in any immediate fashion.

As each species of flower has its place in the natural world, so, in terms of this analogy at least, the fool and the scholar, the fanatic, the timid, the weary and the exuberant, the greedy—all of these also have their place.

A man may be a fool, so to speak, in his spiritual or political judgments, as a father or as a brother; or in perhaps only one relationship he may be an artist, bringing out in that other person the greatest abilities and potentials.

[...] This Stan is no fool, but he is being outwitted.

[...] Eyes wide, Jane smiled.) And because it is April Fool’s Day, then indeed I give you all a special greeting, and I know that you will not take offense. [...]

[...] This is April Fool’s Day.

[...] Ruburt thinks this is because he is afraid of being made to feel a fool. [...]

The desire for punishment led him to contemplate doing the program, but under a guise to fool the spontaneous self. [...]

[...] With all of its evils and ignorances, that Caesar’s world allows a framework in which artists, writers, garbage men, physicians, wise men and fools can exist—and my dear friend, let me tell you: fools have a right to exist. It does you little harm to help uphold their world, and in your terms, time and life without their world would not exist, for there are webworks that unite fools, prophets, wise men and kings. [...]

(Jane was really “fooled” when she opened her eyes and saw her position. [...]

[...] There is one certain way to avoid detection by others and it is to appear so open that it will not occur to them that there is anything you are hiding, but you do not fool me. [...]

[...] And when I run sensitivity sessions I do not fool around. [...]

[...] As it does, so the speakers within each of you can rise to the surface of ordinary consciousness without being considered blabbermouths or mad men and women, or fools, without having to distort their information simply to bring it to your attention. [...]

Some men are fools. [...] You can, however, collect information and statistics applying to any one group, and keep collecting it until you find that you do live in a reality in which all men certainly seem to be fools, or murderers, or hostile to creative people.

[...] While the inner self is aware of this connection, the present self has been fooling itself to some degree, for it did not accept the intuitional knowledge. [...]

[...] I started fooling with the mail thinking the day might be one of rest for both of us. [...]

[...] Were it not for this you could fool yourself, as your nation fooled itself for some years, not realizing its inner psychic condition. [...]

[...] I am telling you that when your entire physical circumstances appear hopeless to you, then you must change them, or honestly admit that these are the circumstances within which you must work, and not fool yourself. [...]

[...] You must indeed look beneath them, and you must learn to listen to the inner voice within that is not fooled by any myths. [...]

[...] She means well enough but in her insecurity she believes them when they tell her that she would be a fool for not raising rents. [...]

“Actually,” she continued much more emphatically now, as we discussed her rather mild comments about the other Seths, “I’m deeply outraged that some people who considered themselves ‘followers’ of mine or Seth can so easily fool themselves when they claim to be speaking for Seth—be so blind to their own motives, or not recognize the fact that they’re taking advantage of people. [...]

[...] The socially knowledgeable person does not want to be taken for a fool, be insulted, and wants to be treated with respect. [...]

[...] He must escape his occasional glibness, for he could use it to fool himself and not use his full abilities.

Ruburt became frightened, for example, of out-of-body travel when he began to get it in his head that “all the nuts” were doing it too, and that out-of-body activity involved him in an inner public environment, in which he might meet “all those fools” who were then not bound by physical restraints. [...]

[...] You are also involved in a kind of creative dilemma, since in a manner of speaking you confuse yourself as the actor with the character you play so convincingly that you are fooled.

[...] You, incidentally, are afraid of expressing verbal states, et cetera, for fear of being made to feel a fool because your background with your father was so loaded with such connotations.